This week on Wellbeing we are talking with Dr Candia Fink about bipolar disorder. This is our fourth instalment in our series on bipolar disorder. Dr FInk is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who specializes in several areas including mood and anxiety disorders. She co-authored "Bipolar disorders for Dummies”, which will soon be going to a fourth addition and she is regularly corresponding with the media on bipolar and other mood disorders. She has held a diverse range of academic appointments including her positions at the New York Medical College and the Cornell University School of Medicine; and a clinical fellowship at the Harvard University School of Medicine.

In this episode Dr. Fink talks about what bipolar is, the different type of bipolar, why bipolar type two I harder to diagnose, why antidepressants don't work as well for this with bipolar one, the brain pathways in those with bipolar disorder, the onset of bipolar, what manic and depressive episodes are, why bipolar two need to still be taken seriously despite being less severe, medications role in reaching stability, and how bipolar if left untreated can change the brain over time.  

"The more active episodes someone has, those episodes hurt the brain and those changes we can see even on imaging" - Dr Fink on this episode of Wellbeing 

Tune in next week when we talk with Terri Cheney about her bipolar journey 

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