Essays on Bipolar Disorder

Demographics: This patient is a 25 year-old, unmarried, white male. He is currently employed as a business manager and supervisor. He speaks English and is Presbyterian. The patient is a college student and lives alone in an apartment. He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 15 and diagnosed as Bipolar. At the time of his Bipolar diagnosis, he was treated with unknown medication(s) and is unable to recall any follow-up treatment. Chief Complaint (CC): “I feel depressed.” ...

Mental illness has the potential to impact every aspect of an individual’s life, as well as the lives of those close to them. I have watched my mother suffer from mental illness since I was a child. At first I did not understand the crying spell, anger, and the mood swings; however, as I have gotten older it all makes sense now. Mental illness has an effect on the overall routine of an individual’s daily life and I have witnessed this first hand. Mental illness has such a nasty stigma that ...

Bipolar Disorder is when the brain goes through phases where someone may feel very energetic at one moment then all of a sudden feel very sad or depressed. People that have bipolar disorder have frequent mood changes which can not only harm themselves, because they can have suicidal thoughts and become depressed, but others. Not necessarily physically, it could be just the way the person with bipolar disorder acts in emotions which may cause others to feel unwanted or uncomfortable. Although ...

Most adolescents have highs and lows, marked as developmental mood swings due to hormones. It becomes a problem when the adolescent begins to feel extreme lows such as depression or hopelessness. This is where health care workers and parents need to dive deeper. Bipolar disorder is characterized as, "a complex psychiatric disorder that can have grave consequences for academic and social development". There isn't a target population for bipolar disorder, as it can affect persons across the ...

The study of abnormal behavior in which deviates from the social norms of an individual human being, With the potential to affect our Psychological development is known as Abnormal Psychology. There are many traits to Abnormal Psychology, along with many causes, symptoms, and types such as "Mood disorders'.Mood disorders are psychological disorders resulting in anomalous changes in moods and behavior. Causes of mood disorders differ in specific, to the type of disorder such as 'depression' ...

A 25-year-old outpatient stated of being unable to express herself and lacks the capability of socialising with others during a psychiatric interview. Despite her 5-year psychiatric treatment and 3 years of medicated for Depression and Anorexia, she persists on going symptoms of depression, lack of will, thoughts of worthlessness and anorexia. Despite the patient had been given different medications for the last 3 years: lamotrigine 100 mg/day and moclobemide 600 mg/day for the last 1.5 years. ...

Being mentally ill makes it hard for anyone to be stable. Your mental stability is important. Recognizing when you are depressed allows you to get the help you need faster. It’s not always a bad thing to be depressed because we as humans need to grow. I find that pain and experiencing disconnection from the world allow us that time to think and grow. Although mental illness affects you mentally, physically, and emotionally and leaves you feeling detached from others it also gives you time to ...

Virginia Woolf was an English writer who was considered one of the best writers in the 20th century. She was believed to have Bipolar II disorder and there is more than enough evidence to back this statement up. Modern psychologists think this because of the mood swings within her writings depicted in certain characters in her books. She was born in London and grew up in an educated, British family who taught her how to read and write and this made her writing career take off. Her mother died ...

People of all gender, cultures, ethnicities, and race live day to day life. What I mean by that is we as human have a life to live; people too see, places to go and things to do. But what if you weren’t able to do all the things that everyone else does. For people who have trouble in that area or in other areas can get tested and medicated to help them be able to live the life everyone else does so naturally. So, I will be writing and informing you about a certain disorder called "Bipolar ...