Essays on Mood Disorder

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ABSTRACT Young people in the United States are battling depression in record numbers, reaching an all-time high of 3 million patients in 2015. Researchers are continuing to search for alternative or additional methods than therapy and medications to improve depressive symptoms in teenagers and young adults. Some studies have demonstrated that as possible option in easing depression is physical exercise. In addition to assisting mental health issues, exercise promotes social interaction, physical health, and appearance. However, research has focused primarily on adults and therefore additional studies are needed with focus on the impact of exercise on depression in young ...

Mood disorder and substance abuse have a close relationship. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2008), over 30 percent of those with mood disorder in the United States also have substance abuse disorder. As a therapist, it is never easy to identify and distinguish between those abusing substances as a self-medication towards mood disorder from those who suffer from the disorder as a result of drug abuse. According to the Nation Health Research, self-medication is common among most of the substance abusers (Harris et al. 2005). Theoretically, those who use substance abuse such as marijuana and alcohol ...

This proposal is about depression and a research that will be carried out to illuminate the relationship between depression and the elderly, The proposal addresses some information on depression and how it relates to the elderly people, as well as why it’s considered important. The essence of the research is to generate adequate knowledge in this sphere of study. I intend to use a qualitative research design which will make good use of case studies to generate data for analysis in this area. Depression is a mood disorder that affects nearly all ages of people. This mood disorder ...

Abstract

Over time, substance abuse has been under extensive research from scholars. The topic is prevalent in various areas and more so in the education sector. Most individuals fail to understand the significant difference between substance abuse and addiction. The ideas tend to revolve in the same realm. Therefore, this paper strives to elaborate on addiction and how they are related to mood disorders. Also, the paper delves into the causes and reasons why someone can be involved in a substance abuse, which can lead to mood disorders. The causes of drug addiction are also illustrated giving out the way ...

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The following two peer-reviewed articles present studies that have been done by scholars, which reinforces the challenges of diagnosing mood disorders. Often times, mood is so intricately connected to the various mental illnesses that determining whether one is struggling as a result of mental disorder or mood disorder becomes a point of contention for the medical professions specializing in this area of treatment. Mood is an aspect of daily life that can often make diagnosis of mood disorders incredibly tricky. The first article titled, “Mood self-assessment in bipolar disorder: a comparison between patients in mania, depression, and euthymia” examines ...

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Abstract Mental health issues are mostly related to the problems such as depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, mood disorder, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. They may develop as a result of several factors such as family factors, biological factors, and social factors. Patients of these disorders and their family members require an elevated level of education to deal with these problems. Therefore, it is important to improve the patient education materials that would help in conveying as much essential information to the patients and their family members as possible. In this regard, patients’ education materials can ...

The elevation or lowering of an individual’s mood can be attributed to one or more disorders that affect the psychological well-being of the affected person. Mood disorders can cause depression, anxiety, and generally create a personal environment for the affected individual that is difficult and even impossible at times to handle. Many people who suffer mood disorders seek therapy or medication, or both, to help get through each day. From a psychological standpoint mood disorders are a debilitating effect that can have a great impact on an individual’s life. There are several types of mood disorders, and ...

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The World Health Organization (WHO), 2010 noted that recent research has identified several psychosocial and biologic risk factors for postpartum depression (PPD). Early recognition is one of the major challenges with this overwhelming mood disorder. The main focus of this project is to provide easy access to educational materials to aid in the screening, assessment, and treatment of women who experience depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PPD was amended by The American Psychiatric Association, in the 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), to peripartum depression and specifies that the onset of mood disturbance can ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

The co-occurrence of substance abuse and mental disorders is a common and growing problem among Americans that should be given attention as it impairs the life of those affected. One of these is the co-occurrence of substance abuse disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. In this regard, this paper provides an overview of this co-occurring disease in terms of its criteria for diagnosis, its incidence, causes, treatment, and the considerations for assessment.

DSM-IV Criteria for Generalized Anxiety

“Generalized anxiety disorder is a chronic and impairing disorder, independent of its substantial comorbidity with other mental disorders” (Andrews et al., 2010, p. 134). According to DSM- IV (Andrews et ...

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1. Read the case study of Kendra at the beginning of Chapter 13 of the Mental Health in Social Work text. 2. Complete all sections of the assignment, as identified in this document. 3. Turn in the assignment to your instructor by the end of Week 7.

Questions to consider when formulating a diagnosis for Kendra

1. Do Kendra’s presenting problems result from patterns of interaction with others?

Kendra’s mentioned issues stem from a series of negative interactions in her social circles. She is very lonely, and when she is alone, she feels overpowered by the thought that she will be lonely forever and be ...

Abstract

Anxiety in modern day has become an issue that seems apparently common among individuals. It has also been noted that there is an increasing tendency of some individuals and groups being / or feeling more prone to anxiety than others. While the topic has raised heated debate among psychiatrists and psychologists alike, there seems to be an inclination from various professionals towards specific areas of anxiety. Dealing with anxiety as a topic is an issue that causes one to be conscious of an individual’s feeling of anxiety. For this reason, it is paramount to take a closer look at prevailing ...

Introduction- Definition

Gambling addiction is the desire to continually gamble regardless of the existence of negative effects. ‘Ludomania’ as it is scientifically called is a mental health problem. Gambling is therefore an impulse control problem because a gambler cannot stop despite their desire to stop gambling. While gambling addictions vary as much as the available games, they are all predisposed to extreme continuous gambling habits including preoccupation gambling even when the addict is not gambling (MedicineNet.com).

Types of Gamblers

According to the ‘stop gambling now’ website, there are several forms of gamblers but not all of them are necessarily addicted to gambling as illustrated below. ...