Essays on Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is an illness conditioned by brain malfunction. According to statistics, 2.6 percent of American adults suffer from the illness. At least half of all cases are said to start before age 25 (Bipolar disorder in adults, 2012). People who suffer from it demonstrate drastic changes in mood, activity levels and productivity. It can take time to identify that a person has a bipolar disorder, since it can be confused with the usual ups and downs that all of us have. The condition is long-term and requires treatment and control. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness ...

Management of Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review

A close analysis of literature review regarding managing the bipolar II disorder hints at two main stages of treatment. First is the acute treatment phase that aims to end the ongoing stage of hypomania or depressive feelings. Second is the preventive management; the purpose of which is to thwart the occurrence of such episodes in the long term. The broad consensus is still not developed as Bipolar II is less studied, and there is a need for further research to manage the disorder in a better manner. Bipolar II disorder shares many characteristics with Bipolar I, but it is ...

The title of the chosen article for this assignment is “Use of self-care strategies in the management of bipolar disorder and their relationship to symptoms, illness intrusiveness, and quality of life” authored by Edward Wynter and Tania Perich. The scholarly article presents a study on specified self-care strategies important for managing bipolar disorder. It further asserts that self-care benefits those with bipolar disorder for the improvement of their quality of life. The research method used in this particular study was quantitative through the use of Self-Care Strategies Questionnaire (SCSQ). The questions were classified according to the six domains of ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, 61.5 million Americans experience mental illness annually while around 13 million have to live with a serious mental condition, like depression and bipolar disorder (as cited in National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2013). One of the ways to deal with these conditions is the use of psychological therapies. Psychological therapy takes different forms, such as interpersonal therapy, family-focused therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Among these therapies, the most predominant is the last one, cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT. The National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists (n.d.) states ...

Childhood bipolar is a disorder that mainly occurs in children. These children are characterized by periodical and abrupt mood swings, periodical hyperactivity which can also be followed by very intense temper tantrums which in most cases lead to deviant behaviors. All these behaviors can be seen in these children within a very short period of time many a times leading to misunderstanding of these children (Fristad & Arnold 23). Peace may become a vocabulary to his children because they never seem to look settled and if they do, these periods last for just a short time. This is a problem that needs to be taken not ...

Part 1

Community oriented policing services or COPS developed as a response to public fears in the early 1990s of rampant crime and politicians promises to “put 100,000 officers” on the streets at a minimal cost (Roth & Ryan, 2000). At around the same time new research into policing methods began to question the traditional police approach to fighting crime. According to the research, simply putting out more patrols to respond to crimes after they happen was not enough to substantially decrease crime. Instead, the research argued police needed to attack the underlying issues that facilitate the occurrence of crime (Roth ...

Mental disorder has become very common these days and in the United States, many people have been diagnosed with this condition. According the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, statistics indicate that bipolar disorder is non discriminatory, it affects men, women and children in equal measure race, social class or ethnic group notwithstanding. Approximately 5.7 million Americans who are eighteen and/or older suffer from it. Even so, about 70% of this population is aware of their status and are under medication (WHO 2005). Bipolar disorder is therefore a condition that has become very common among the American population taking into consideration ...

Question 1

Disruptive behavior problems include violence and aggression and are connected to various difficulties a child is facing in the school environment such as poor academic performance and problems in peer relationships. These disruptive behaviors normally affect the child, his or her family members as well as classmates at school. However, instilling the child with social skills and minimizing aggressiveness can effectively solve these problems. Social skills programs can provide the child with a range of skills required to cope with school environment, both socially and academically. One of the important skills learnt in program is the problem solving skills, which help ...

Gabrielle Carlson’s “Early Onset Bipolar Disorder” (2005) article explains the certainty in diagnosing prepubertal children as a delicate matter. As an accurate diagnosis turns childhood into a minefield, a misdiagnosis belittles the complexities of children. Applying science and rooting characteristics out of a child is burdened with flukes. There is more arguing about a child not having a disorder than there is in accepting how an undeveloped youth can be diagnosed.

A prepubertal child should not be diagnosed with a bipolar disorder because he may grow out of it. It’s a flippant excuse but also the most natural decision to take. The behavior is ...

Discussion 1

Psychological assessment is an extremely vital exercise for an individual or the community at large. It ensures that the courts give a fair ruling. There are different issues that could arise when conducting a psychological assessment in the community. This paper discusses issues that could arise when carrying out an assessment.

Competency of an individual is substantial in the court (Adler, 2004). The psychologist evaluates the mind of an individual and states if the defendant can face trial. In case the defendant is incompetent, the psychologist writes to the court to request time to prepare the defendant for legal proceedings. Additionally, ...

According to the Mayo Clinic (2012), depression is also known as “major depression, major depressive disorder, and clinical depression, and it will affect almost 15 percent of the population at some time in their lives (Turnquist, in Payne, 2011).” It is more than just a sense of being “down;” it is a real, persistent disorder that affects your mood in such a way (i.e. sadness or loss of interest in former activities) that it interferes with your daily life. It is a chronic condition, and it can last for weeks, months, or even years. People who suffer from it ...

When interviewing men with a combination of Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder I and Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder with Male Erectile Disorder it is important to first rule out the possibility that there is an underlying physical cause creating one or more of the psychological problems. In the best possible scenario, the interviewer has full access to the patient’s medical history, and it includes hormonal work ups to eliminate these possibilities. For example, a patient with a hypoactive thyroid may suffer from mood swings, a loss of desire and associated erectile disorder, experiencing these symptoms on an ongoing basis could cause ...

There is a wide range of things that could affect the normal working environment in a public or government workplace. Disability and its underlying personal & interpersonal, and physical & emotional issues serve as some of the best examples. The local or state government has provided public and government workers the necessary protections so that their rights may not be compromised should they receive maltreatments and encounter issues of prejudice in their workplace because of their disability.

This is a case of David Milligan, the acting chief of human resources of a state university-owned library. David Milligan currently faces a problematic situation wherein he ...

Mental problems associated with alcohol and drug abuse and dependence

Alcoholism is the excessive use and dependence on alcohol by users all the time. Someone who is alcoholic can’t perform any duty without drinking. Drug abuse is described as the use of a medical substance in any other form other than the prescribed by the medical physician. In most cases people tend to drink alcohol for other reason other than enjoyment to make it as a daily need. The drug use is supposed to be prescribed by the medical physician but in several cases people tend to use these drugs for personal pleasure. This two major behaviour result to many ...

Introduction

Bipolar disorder alias maniac depression is characterized by mood swings between lows( depression) and highs( mania), or a combination of these two at times. While depression is one of the most common features of this illness, maniac episodes are, usually, marked by a mix of irritability and anger, with or without euphoria. As such, the mood symptoms in the disorder may take four forms:

Mania: A period of persistently irritable mood accompanied by increased sense of self-esteem and optimism.

Depression: A period of unhappiness leading to changes in sleep, appetite, and indifference with the usual groove. Mixed Mania: The stage when mania and depression coexist. Hypomania: The state of persistently elevated mood marked by a ...

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 questions, as ...

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 the bipolar disorder ...

Introduction

Acute myocardial infarction is a complication of the heart that in which patients complain of heaviness or discomfort of the chest area. This complication is mainly as a result of a decrease in blood flow into the lungs or increase in perfusion. Diagnosis of this complication is done with great detail of the family history as well as physical examination to ascertain the levels of complication (Kapfhammer et al., 2004). In most cases, the treatment involves combating the possibility of re-infarction with much focus being given on the need to reduce any further damage of the cardiac tissue. Treatment procedures in ...

Introduction

Regarded are the gold standard diagnostic tool for mental disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), was engineered by the American Psychiatric Association (Maddux & Winstead, 2012). This tool provides a common language, as well as, standardized criteria for the categorization of mental disorders. DSM is widely used by a host of professionals including guides researchers, clinicians, pharmaceutical firms, health insurance companies, legal entities, policy makers and other entities such as the World Health Organization during the evaluation of mental disorders (Maddux & Winstead, 2012). The most recent version of DSM was published in May 2013, and it is the ...

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 - The ...

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 One ...

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 not go ...

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 personal relationships. The ...

Introduction

Depression can be defined in two major ways that it mostly occurs. Firstly, depression can be said to be a state where one has a low mood and aversion towards any activity. This state can cause alterations in a person’s feelings, thoughts, sense of wellbeing as well as behavior. In the second understanding, depression can be understood to be a medical condition that is characterized by a mood disorder which leads to persistent feeling of grief as well as loss of interest. Also known as major depression or clinical depression, this second understanding of depression is characterized by alterations of one’s thinking ...

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 around them. Furthermore, the ...

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 stress ...

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 disease ...

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 ...

Ms fielding that has erratic behavioral patterns that precede her losing her job and the demise of her father. She has a brief psychotherapy due to living away from her family as she concedes of experiencing stress since she lost her job three months ago. She attributes her job loss to a sluggish economy while she denies having mood disturbance as she answers no to psychotic symptoms. It is possible that Fielding could be suffering from a brief psychotic disorder. The diagnostic criteria include (1) delusions, hallucinations that have eventual full return to premorbid level of functioning. (3) A depressive or bipolar ...

In this modern age of therapists and medication, it would seem that everybody is on some type of medication. Once unthinkable to speak about depression, anxiety, or any other psychological disorder in public, now it can be difficult to find individuals who have spent their lives undiagnosed, even at young ages. Children are branded as hyperactive, anxious, depressed, and a plethora of over disorders that require medication. With so much medication being prescribed, on wonders where is the line between legitimately sick and overly medicated? It has recently come to the attention of the medical community that though there are a ...

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; extreme ...

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 ...

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 a research in ...

The following paper is a case analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s bipolar disorder. The paper uses a psychodynamic model to discuss treatment, symptoms, and diagnosis. The case study uses the concepts of abnormal psychology to trace the etiology of a mood disorder beyond just the vestiges of uncommon behavior. The paper argues that he suffered from a mood disorder. His problems were exacerbated by alcoholism and a tendency to exhibit bipolar mood swings that contributed to his suicide. He was most likely motivated to rescue himself from an overprotective mother and a cold and disciplinarian father. The task of the psychoanalyst is to help ...

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 on mental disorders. Unlike ...

Introduction

A quantitative research design is the process of explaining a situation under observation through collecting numerical data, which is statistically analyzed. Every research must explain a phenomenon (Wetcher-Hendricks, 2011). For example, the two studies selected in this case explain different phenomena. The study by Tesli, Egeland, Sonderby, Haukvik, Bettella, and many others investigates the influence of genetic risk variants such as enlarged ventricles and volumetric reductions on structural brain abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder (BD). The second study by Meesters, Schouws, Stek, Haan, Smit, Eikelenboom, Beekman and Comijs investigated the distinction between the cognitive impairment in late-life schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder. ...

In the study by Geddes, et al., (2010), the researchers investigated monotherapy with either Lithium Carbonate of Valproate Semisodium and combination therapy with both, for Bipolar I. Their goal was to discover if combination therapy was more effective for relapse prevention than either drug alone. This is because while each medication is effective with some people, there are high rates of relapse with each when used alone. The quantitative design used was cox regression analysis to determine if relapse rated differed based on whether individuals were taking either Lithium or Valproate alone or both together. Relapse was defined as a ...

In the contemporary society, there exist a variety of mental disorders. These are conditions which interfere with the normal functioning of the individuals hence end up altering their feelings, thoughts and behaviors. However, it is not easy for the physicians, nurses, psychiatrists and the rest of the society to accurately and correctly identify these orders (Bowden, C. L., 2001). It is very difficult to distinguish between mental health and illnesses since there is single simple test that can be used to prove if something is amiss. Instead, there are presumed not to be a physical disorder, but are only diagnosed and ...

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 in ...

Health abnormalities of various kinds possess a deep association with the underlying factors which are of genetic, biochemical and environmental origin. Affected individuals are more prone to suffer from an impaired quality of life (QOL). As a result, their management also places a significant burden on the family members and the healthcare system. Especially, health abnormalities linked with substance abuse present a challenging task. The reason is that people with substance abuse behavior either have or more vulnerable to mental health problems. There is a need to highlight this particular healthcare problem, its challenges, assessment and management with the aid of available literature. So, ...

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, thoughts or ...

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

One of the disorders ...

Treating Mental Health Illness – A Literature Review

ABSTRACT The following literature review explores the capabilities of the nurse practitioner treating varieties of mental disorders as comorbidities of primary care patients. The NP interface with the primary care and outpatient services of different people living on the fringe of society with specific barriers to quality health care connected to mental illness proves valuable. The efficacy of the NP in treating mental illness in patients according to the literature emerges as a valuable intervention with screening, diagnosing, and therapy options for specific patients often isolated from medical care access with mental illness including homeless, geriatric, pediatric, and the ...

Alcoholism has adverse effects on the health of individuals. Furthermore, too much consumption of alcohol can result in individuals getting a number of disorders. In most cases individuals who have problems with their mental health tend to end up having alcohol related problems because of their persistent abuse of drugs and especially alcohol. As such, individuals in this state are likely to suffer from co-occurring disorders. Therefore, there are certain steps that an individual can undergo to obtain the necessary treatment. This mainly includes support from friends and family members and this can only be possible when an individual can ...

Abstract

Psychological Nursing is a nursing specialty that deals with and care for people with mental distress or mental health illnesses like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia or depression. Registered psychological mental health nurses work with families, groups, communities and individuals of all ages attending to their health needs. In this specialty, nurses receive intense training in psychological therapies. They deal with demanding behavior and psychiatric medication administration. Traditionally, mentally ill people in the society were removed and placed in asylums, indefinitely, patients inside the mental health system were required to take compliant roles in management of their own care and decision ...

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 ...

Introduction

Mental illness is classified as a medical condition whereby an individual’s feelings, thinking, moods, daily functioning and ability to interact with others are disrupted. The larger society classifies such patients as crazy since they seem to be detached from others. Like any other disease, mental illness is a medical condition whereby one cannot cope with the ordinary demands of life (Thompson, 11). The concept mental illness entails brain disorders like dementia and schizophrenia, personality disorders and other disorders like anxiety and depression to mention a few. It affects people across socio-economic, religious or educational backgrounds. For many decades, mental illness has ...

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 and even ...

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 individual’s life ...

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 interventions that ...

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 Austin ( ...

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 and even ...

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 disorder are not ...

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.

Schizophrenia

Bipolar and schizophrenia disorders ...

The fact that Tina hears voices that command her to perform hygienic activities is a first sign of abnormal psychology. Auditory hallucinations are usually referred to as symptoms of schizophrenia, but before setting a diagnosis, Tina’s case must be carefully evaluated by taking into consideration all the information that she provided, included her own believe that her symptoms are a result of a witchcraft performed by her boyfriend for controlling her and the current research in the field of psychopathology. As Tina confessed that she has used methamphetamines heavily in the past several months, this can be an indication that her ...

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. This ...

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. In general, routine creates a sense of safety in a ...

Mood disorders refer to ailments that disrupt how human beings react to different situations. The disturbance mainly leads to unwanted emotions, for example, people may be unhappy when their mood changes. The change of emotions may lead to weird behaviors such as killing, crying, and yelling. Mood disorder may be depressive or polar depending on the symptoms that victims portray (Langwith 24). Researchers have sought to find out the main cause of the ailment to no avail; however, different people have different beliefs. Different researchers argue that moods are caused by psychodynamics, genetics, or behavior (Langwith 24). Behavioral change ...

Major depressive disorder, more commonly known simply as depression, is a mood disorder that leaves sufferers with an increased sense of malaise and low self-esteem. Other symptoms include losing interest in normal, everyday activities. Major depressive disorder is an extremely prevalent phenomenon, being a contributing factor to decreasing life expectancy (the fourth leading cause for disability-adjusted life-years) (Blumenthal et al., 2007, p. 587). Causes of depression are myriad, and can be caused by anything from chemical imbalances in the brain to psychological factors and even drug and alcohol abuse. Depression contributes to significant mortality and morbidity for sufferers and the families ...

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 ...