title: Creative treatment of bipolar disorders.
abstract: Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder with chronic and remitting course. The disorder is related to high mortality and severely impairs everyday functioning. Therefore a scientifically sound and practical approach to treatment is needed. Making a long-term treatment plan usually also demands some creativity. The patient is interested in a number of issues, from the choice of therapy in acute phases to long-term treatment. Usual questions are how long shall I take the medications, do I really need all those pills or can we decrease the dosage of some drugs? This paper discussed the above mentioned questions in light of latest publications in this field.
authors.affiliation: University Psychiatric Clinic, Studenec 48, SI-1260 Ljubljana-Polje, Slovenia, rok.tavcar@psih-klinika.si.
authors.forename: Rok
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tavčar
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology*; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*