Sleep Apnea Changes Your Brain

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I have sleep apnea and bipolar disorder.  According to articles I've read, the lack of oxygen to the brain during apnea spells can harm the brain and yes even cause bipolar disorder and major depression. 

My sleep apnea seemed to start after my bipolar disorder: I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 33 and given Depakote to treat it whereupon I then gained sixty pounds.  Sleep apnea was the result. 

So it is that they can go hand-in-hand: bipolar happens and then sleep apnea or sleep apnea and then bipolar (or major depression).  Either way our brains are affected in a big way and changed foreveralong the way.

SSee the scientific  article before this post about this same subject.