Essays on Bipolar Disorder

Psychology

OUTLINE
- Introduction
- An overview of the main points involving Bipolar Disorder will be discussed
- Description of Bipolar Disorder
- Etiology or cause of the disorder
- DSM-IV-TR or DSM-5 symptom criteria of Bipolar Disorder
- Disorder Statistics
- Prevalence or the number of people who display Bipolar Disorder in the total population at any given time
- The number of cases or incidence of Bipolar Disorder appearing during a specific period
- Other relevant facts pertaining to Bipolar Disorder
- Treatments for Bipolar Disorder
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Throughout history, humans have experienced a wide variety of mental health disorders, some tolerable with counseling, while others disorders requiring more intensive treatment through the use of inpatient hospitalization or medication. Mental health disorders have the ability to touch all aspects of an individual’s life; from daily interactions with family and friends, to the extreme of such disorders leading to successful suicides in an attempt to be free of one’s mental terror. However, through the course of astute studies and passionate researchers, we are closer to understanding how to effectively treat a menagerie of disorders.

Mental Health Disorders

Bipolar Disorder
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The National Institute of Mental Health defines bipolar disorder as a depressive brain disorder where an individual experiences two opposite moods – a manic, elevated mood and a downbeat, depressive mood, that is why it is also called manic-depressive disorder. The “shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks” (National Institute of Mental Health, n.d.) characterize this disorder, which results in changes in sleeping pattern and levels of activities and energies the individual perform. These changes also impinge on how the individual functions in school, at work, at home, and can also negatively affect Continue reading...

The interview conducted was for a patient with bipolar disorder. The patient's name is Mr. Jones, and he is 25 years old. In addition, he is a teacher and teaches French and Music. He married and has one child who is 3years old. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive disorder. It is a medical condition of the brain that is characterized by unusual shifts and adversely affects a person’s thoughts, feeling, and body. In other words, the moods of the individual are at the far extreme, some could be severe to the extent of harming the people Continue reading...

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a mental disorder that is characterized by unusual shifts in mood, energy and activity levels.
The term "manic-depressive illness" was coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the late XIX century and at that time referred to all mood disorders. Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and the author of temperament typology, concluded that a certain type of people predisposed to this illness, in his classification they are called cyclothymic. These people are really cheerful, sociable, very adaptive and emotionally labile, but they are are susceptible to unreasonable mood swings which under the Continue reading...

Section One:

Background Information
Bipolar disorder, which is also known as the Manic-depressive illness. It is a disorder in the brain that triggers unusual changes in mood, activity levels, energy. It as well hinders the ability for a person to go about with their daily tasks. Bipolar has very severe side effects if it was not discovered in time. It may lead to poor relationships with other people, poor work relations with colleagues, poor performance in the workplace or at school and can lead to the victim committing suicide. The bipolar disorder can, however, be treated, and the people with the Continue reading...

Description

Bipolar disorder is a major health concern that has drawn interest from the general public, media and the scientific community over the past decade. Bipolar disorder, sometimes referred to as manic-depressive illness is a neurological disorder that causes anomalous changes in energy, mood and ability to function in an individual. The disorder distorts moods and thoughts, interferes with rational thought and incites dreadful behaviors in an individual. Bipolar disorder symptoms often lead to deteriorating results at school and work, damaged relationships and sometimes suicide (Treatment Advocacy Centre 1).
Bipolar patients experience moods swings ranging from the lows of depression; Continue reading...

ASummary

People diagnosed with personality disorders—such as bipolar disorder—tend to maintain demeanors that deviate from what is commonly seen in people who do not suffer from the said condition. Among the many variations of symptoms seen in people who have bipolar disorder, it is said that unrealistically high life goals and high reward sensitivity are two of the most indicative symptoms that determine if a person is actually afflicted with bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. In light of this finding, a trio of psychological researchers, Sheri L. Johnson, Charles S. Carver, and Ian H. Gotlib, conducted Continue reading...

When considering the DSM and personality disorders, it is easy to see the necessity of them being included. They are needed, because there are a lot of symptoms that occur in the aspect of personality disorders that also occur in mental disorders. This makes it important to consider that as the reasoning for why they should be included in the DSM.
One good example of a personality disorder that has many similar traits to mental disorders is bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder has severe mood swings, impulsive behavior, carelessness, and many other similar symptoms. These symptoms are also commonly found Continue reading...

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are mental diseases. Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder, while schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder (a severe mental disorder that causes abnormal thinking and perceptions and results in loss of touch with reality). However, differentiating between these disorders may cause some difficulties due to similarity of some symptoms and treatments. Thus, only psychiatrist can make the diagnosis.
Depression is the most common symptom overlap of the illnesses. Patients of both the diseases experience depressive periods. These periods are characterized by loss of energy, feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and sadness, difficulty sleeping and concentrating, negative thoughts, Continue reading...

Current Trends in Psychology: Bipolar Disorder

Throughout history, humans have experienced a wide variety of mental health disorders, some tolerable with counseling, while others disorders requiring more intensive treatment through the use of inpatient hospitalization or medication. Mental health disorders have the ability to touch all aspects of an individual’s life; from daily interactions with family and friends, to the extreme of such disorders leading to successful suicides in an attempt to be free of one’s mental terror. However, through the course of astute studies and passionate researchers, we are closer to understanding how to effectively treat a menagerie of disorders.

Mental Health Disorders

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Age __________________________

Medical Conditions(s): _______________________________________________
Reason for Referral
The patient was experiencing difficulties in getting sleep and was irritable most of the time. The patient constantly sinks into depression and has even in a number of occasions attempted suicide. Furthermore, the patient has lost interest in certain activities, which they used to like such as that of playing with friends.

Tests Administered/Test Scores & Interpretation/Behavioral Observations:

The tests that have been administered are the psychological, brain and the blood tests for bipolar disorder. The psychological test were done through the use of questions involving the level of concentration of the patient while at work and Continue reading...

Abnormal Psychology

Human psychology deals with the nature and behavior of human beings. There are many disorders that human beings face and affect even their mental nature. One of the most common psychological disorders is the bipolar disorder; it is mostly experienced in the teenage years which were the case with Pollock. Most of the cases of this disorder begins before the age of 25 but might start and a young age or later in life. When one suffers from bipolar disorder, he/she experiences a shift in mood. The behavior is also influenced, and the mood shifts from low to high Continue reading...

Introduction

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that affects common performance of human brain. This disease is also known as manic depression disorder and mood disorder. This disease has been emerged as a major threat to public health in busy schedule and competitive environment of today’s life. People are stressed due to a number of reasons and this only aggravates the problem of bipolar disorder. This paper intends to discuss bipolar disease, its causes, methods of treatment, and several other related aspects of the subject matter.

Causes of Mental Illness:

Bipolar disorder can be described as mental illness that has serious impacts on Continue reading...

Abstract

Bipolar disorder is a complex disability that presents substantial challenges for diagnosis and treatment. Recent research shows that there is a significant need for adjunctive psychotherapy to supplement and optimize the benefits of medication, Researchers and clinicians recognize that quality of life outcomes are at least as important as clinical outcomes to successful treatment of bipolar disorder A growing body of literature indicates that psychotherapeutic interventions benefit bipolar clients and have the potential to significantly improve their psychosocial functioning and decrease the substantial social costs of the illness. In this article we examine psycho-educational interventions along with three evidence-based Continue reading...

Also referred to as the maniac depressive illness, the bipolar disorder is arguably the most controversial diagnosis. Webb (2006) argues that the controversial nature of bipolar disorder is mostly experienced when the patient is a child aged below 10 years. This, according to Faedda and Austin (2006) is because the condition is associated with symptoms that are so much similar to such other conditions as the Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Due to the overlapping nature of the symptoms, there is likelihood that physicians will misdiagnose the condition. What makes the condition even more controversial, according to Faedda and Continue reading...

Human psychology deals with the nature and behavior of human beings. There are many disorders that human beings face and affect even their mental nature. One of the most common psychological disorders is the bipolar disorder; it is mostly experienced in the teenage years which were the case with Pollock. Most of the cases of this disorder begins before the age of 25 but might start and a young age or later in life. When one suffers from bipolar disorder, he/she experiences a shift in mood. The behavior is also influenced, and the mood shifts from low to high Continue reading...

Bipolar disorder is a very serious brain illness which is also called maniac depressive illness. Those children who suffer from it are typical to changes in their moods very often and these moods dictate how they act regardless of where they are or what they are doing. These children sometimes feel extremely happy and become much more active than they are known to be, a state regarded as mania. Then, at other times, these children become very sad and become less active than they are normally and become a bit depressed (Fristad & Arnold 2003). Actually, children suffering from bipolar Continue reading...

Mood disorder is a group of several diagnoses in the statistical manual and diagnostic of mental disorders. A mood disorder is therefore a temporary state of mind or feeling which generally suggest ‘being in an appalling mood’. There are many types of disorders and in all of them, people experience changes in their moods. Major mood disorders include mania and major depression and milder versions of each one of them. Mood disorders are not the usual occasional blues or the ups-and-downs rather; they basically are forms of chemical imbalances which result for various environmental or biological reasons.

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Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology that tries to concentrate more on what people term as abnormal in life. This is mainly in terms of behaviors which are considered as deviant from the expected code of conduct. In any case, any strange or rare experience in behavior makes one to be treated as abnormal. Most of these disorders are extremes of the normal circumstances and are mostly caused by imbalance in some physiological processes, biological factors or even some physical factors. Several symptoms can be used to describe the disorders whereby some of the factors are unique to Continue reading...

Abstract

Depressive Disorders is an umbrella title for a varied range of disorders that include, major depressive disorder, Bipolar disorder I and II, and dysthymia. Bipolar Disorder is a debilitating condition that has a lifetime prevelance of 1-1.6%. It accounted for a $15.5 billion dollar loss in productivity during the 1990’s in the United States (Soreff 2013). This paper hopes to expand your knowledge on the key characteristics of depressive disorders with a specific emphasis on bipolar disorder.
Depression and mania have been written about many times throughout the course of mans history on earth. King Saul was thought Continue reading...

In this essay I am going to discuss about Britney spears who has a mood disorder called bipolar disorder.

Britney spears born on 2nd December the year 1981 in McComb in Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana is an American pop star. She is daughter to Lynne spears and Jamie spears. She started attending classes in dancing and was a great gymnast, but of all things she liked to sing. This love for singing made her audition for The All New Mickey Mouse Club show at age 8, but because she was young they turned her down. 2yeras later she went and auditioned for a role in Mickey Mouse for the second time and now she won the Continue reading...

Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder) is a severe and highly morbid recurrent mood disorder. The prevalence of the disorder is 1.3% to 1.6% while its mortality rate is 2 to 3 times higher compared to that of the general population. The suicidal rate among bipolar disorder patients is about 10-20%. The disorder has diverse clinical manifestations ranging from mild depression to severe depression and/with psychosis. A severe variant of the disorder, which manifests in rapid cycles and is difficult to treat, is common in women. The disorder has high recurrence and suicidal risks.
Bipolar disorder is one of the two Continue reading...

Introduction:

Bipolar disorder as defined by the National Institute of Mental Health is a brain disorder that causes a patient to experience unusual mood shifts, activity levels, energy, and the ability to go on with day-to-day activities (Mondimore, 1999). The disorder is classified according to occurrences of the intense moods, that is the excitedly and joyous moods, normally referred to as manic state, and intensely hopeless and depressed states known as the depressive state. The patient can also experience prolonged moments where both states occur simultaneously. These moments are characterized by irritability and changes in energy, behavior, and sleep. The Continue reading...

In most instances, people undergo mood swings or changes. In some occasion, one may feel frustrated and irritable; other occasions, one feels excited or happy. Nevertheless, people suffering from bipolar disorder undergo severe mood changes, which impair or affect their daily life as well as adversely influence their relationship with others. Because bipolar disorder, more often than not, is a chronic health complication, most persons suffering from bipolar need life-long therapy or treatment to maintain it in check. It is recommendable someone with bipolar disorder to see a psychiatrist frequently, because they can assess the symptoms, answer some troubling Continue reading...

Worldwide mental retardation (MR) is one of the most common conditions affecting 1 to 3% of the general population. Clinically the symptoms differ from one individual to the other as it depends on the severity of the condition (Mental Retardation, 2010; Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), 2011; Intellectual disability, 2013). However, few common symptoms associated with MR are as follows:
- The intellectual developing milestones are not meet as expected.
- Common features shown by the individuals with MR includes unable to do the routine activities independently, impetuous, passive, causing injury to self, inconvincible, rude behavior, frustrated and suffering from Continue reading...

The case clearly represents one of the many cases where bosses are unfair to their team members. Chris was a good worker from the beginning but unfortunately, he developed a bipolar disorder. He started behaving differently because of the bipolar disorder and usually people understood his problem except for his boss. His boss was rude and did not treat him the same as every other worker in the office. The behaviour of his boss was very discouraging to him and finally led him to quit his job.
Bipolar disorder is a mental health problem which causes extreme mood swings. Continue reading...

Bipolar disorder is a disorder of the in which the patient suffers through erratic mood shifts and changes in energy levels. Many doctors also refer to the bipolar disorder as ‘maniac depressive illness’. This problem leaves the life of the patient in disarray and his/her relationships, a career as well as academics suffer because of changing energy levels and moods. The National Alliance on Mental Illness discloses that more than 10 million people suffer from the bipolar illness in the United States alone. According to the trends seen in the United States, more than a handful of cases of Continue reading...

The Case of Angelina Jolie

It may sound like a mere rumor but it is a verifiable fact that the celebrated Hollywood movie star, Angelina Jolie has been a victim of bipolar personality disorder. Born on the fourth day of June 1975, the actress, who is a favorite in the entertainment industry, was named Angelina Jolie Voights (Tracy, 2008). Voights, her father was an actor and had met Angelina’s mother in the movie industry as she was into the acting business as well. Angelina’s parents separated in the year 1976 following Voight’s infidelity tendencies. The breakup has been pointed out as Continue reading...

Lesson 2.1

- What are the red flags of back pain that must be considered in the management of any patient?

The red flag symptom is pain. The details are antecedents of minor or major pain, MVA occurrence or heavy lifting (Bigos et al. 1994; Jackson & Browning, 2005; Chou et al., 2007; Leerar et al., 2007). The red flag symptom is chronological age. There is an augmented hazard of cancer resulting from aortic aneurysm (Bigos et al. 1994; Jackson & Browning, 2005; Chou et al., 2007; Leerar et al., 2007). The red flag is antecedents of cancer. There is the possibility of Continue reading...

Marriage to a Spouse with Bipolar Disorder

There are various challenges that a married couple faces in their daily lives. Some of these challenges can be withered, and the couple can continue living together in harmony in the marriage. However, there are other disturbances within a marriage that if not remedied early on, they may result in the termination of the marriage. Bipolar disorder can be one of the major challenges that spouses are faced with in a marriage relationship.
The spouses are normally faced with numerous challenges especially if they strive to maintain the marriage while trying to keep up with a spouse who suffers Continue reading...

Mental disorders presently affect a large proportion of world population. The World Health Organization (2012)conducted a status survey, which found that a significant chunk of the world population suffers from various degrees of a wide assemblage of mental disorders. According to the World Health Organization Report (2012), over 350 million people suffer from depression all over the world. In a conflict between, Nature vs. Nurture, scientific community stands divided on the contribution of genetics on Psychiatric disorders and illness. However through this essay, I will put forward arguments based on scientific findings that showcase the contribution of genetics Continue reading...

Raising a child is definitely rewarding; however, it could be more challenging than one might have imagined, as there are a lot to think about, in order to raise a balanced and happy individual. Parenting literature suggests that children-and families alike- need to have established routines. That way, children can find it easier to cope with everyday transitions (Bell, 2001 p. 175). Established routines in the classroom are fundamental principles been taught to educators (Butterfield, 2002 p.29-32), who in turns counsel parents on the significance of having a schedule and established routines at home.
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Bipolar depression or in other words known as maniac depression disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis which categorically describes mood disorder defined by presence of episodes of abnormality elevated energy levels , mood, and cognition with or without depression episodes. Moods which are elevated are referred to as mania from a clinical point of view and as hypomania if it is milder. Commonly individuals who go through maniac episodes experience depression episodes, or mixed episodes or symptoms, whereby features of both depressions and mania are present at the same time. Periods of ‘normal’ mood separate these episodes though in some individuals, mania and depression may change rapidly, a situation known as rapid cycling. Psychotic symptoms such as hallucination and delusion are sometimes observed as a result of extreme episodes of maniac. Onset of full symptoms occurs late in young adulthood or adolescent stage.(Bendelow 2005)

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Abstract

Low mood disorder, otherwise known as depression, is the product of distorted judgments and beliefs. As such, it can produce cognitive dysfunctions that indicate the impairment in attention, concentration, memory, and other aspects. The opening chapters of the project induct into the rationales behind depression and its phenomenon. Further sections analyze depression and cognitive outcomes, the negative cognitive triad, faulty information processing, the ways depression produces cognitive deficits, functional and structural abnormalities of the human brain caused by depression and associated with cognitive deficits, depression cognitive symptoms and cognitive abilities affected by depression. The opinions of prominent psychology and Continue reading...

Kay Redfield Jamison’s article about creativity and manic-depression is very convincing in its argument that many of the historically renowned artists, poets, writers, and other creative people suffered from mood disorders. This article provides standard clinical definitions of manic-depressive illness as well as Jamison’s own more vivid descriptions of the effects of the illness. The historical information as well as modern studies of creative people provide compelling evidence that manic-depressive illness tends to run in families and is more present in creative people. Diagrams such as that of the Tennyson family tree, the chronology of Robert Schumann’ Continue reading...

Introduction

The purpose of the review is not entirely clear from reading the first paragraph. The author at this stage is not clear on whether he is focusing on the increasing number of patients with ADHD and bipolar disorders or the similarities and differences between the two. The author chooses to compose the literature review to explain to readers the different researches that have been done to either support the view that ADHD and bipolar disorders are similar or to oppose the view. He then comes to a conclusion that there is no clear line between ADHD and bipolar disorders. Continue reading...

Description of Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Depression has been aptly described as a “a disturbance in mood, thought, and body
characterized by varying degrees of sadness, disappointment, loneliness, hopelessness, self-doubt, and guilt” . Its symptoms are categorized according to manifested changes in feelings, in behavior, as well as disclosing physical complaints. For instance, changes in feelings include: crying, displeasure, hopelessness, guilt, indifference, and pessimism. In terms of changes in behavior, the exemplified symptoms include: withdrawal, negligence, irritability, dissatisfaction, forgetfulness, confusion, inability to adapt to changes, as well as exhibiting suicidal tendencies. Finally, symptoms of physical complaints include: excessive fatigue, lack of strength or energy, insomnia, loss Continue reading...

Depression is a mood disorder more than just feelings and thoughts of unhappiness. It is a medical sickness that entails both the mind and body. The distinction of feelings of unhappiness or being down from clinical depression is the incapability to elude this feeling of sorrow that can stay to at least two weeks. Depression can influence the work, school and social relationships. Daily activities will be difficult to accomplish and worst, the patient can feel that life is not worth living. Patients suffering from depression will experience hopelessness, helplessness, negativity and intense anxiety. These feelings stay and do Continue reading...

Introduction

Genetics is the study of genes and variation in living organisms. Genetics characteristic generally considered the field of biology but it is clear that it does happens frequently with many of the life sciences, strongly discussed, and linked in the study of information systems. The genes structure and function variation and distributions extended in the study of the cell, the organism and within the context of a population. Nature versus nurture is the process of genetics work with the combination process with an organism’s environment, and experiences to influence development and behavior.
The extra-cellular environment includes on switching Continue reading...