Bipolar Depression: A Psychological Analysis

She was a mom of five who was relaxed, charismatic, and most of the time free- spirited. The whole house was happy when she was because she played with her children, cooked them dinner and made sure they went to bed on time. Like all great mothers, we are to take care of our children and protect them from harm, so what if your mood kept you from doing so? Bipolar depression is a lifelong mental health condition that has extreme mood swings. “Mania” being a high meaning that you’re energetic and ready to take on the day. It consists of feeling like you’re on top of the world and always wanting to participate in activities. In my character’s case, when she was having a good day she had little to no sleep. In a particular scene, she stole all …show more content…
While the serotine controls of responses to emotions such as anger, how we regulate sleep, our sexuality and appetite. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be genetically linked. Children who grow up in dysfunctional households with repeated behavior of mood, drug and alcohol abuse or witnessing a parent go through a repeated cycle of hospitalizations may also lead to a development of bipolar depression in the near future. Meds such as anti-depressants or mood stabilizers help to regulate the treatment process along with therapy. The Psychodynamic theory would explain bipolar being a fight between the conscious and nonconscious minds. A conscious mind is being aware at the moment while the unconscious mind provides unpleasant thoughts such as suicide. Throughout the psychodynamic theory, patients may sometimes experience hallucinations, delusional behavior or mood swings. Treatment consist of working with the thought and controlling our moods so they can live a regular life. Our behavior, feelings and emotions is however a time consuming process considering the fact that these behaviors are childhood memories that follow them into …show more content…
According to behaviorists, depression is learned through time, and being so the behavior can be unlearned. The problem underlies more within our daily stressors. More specifically environmental stressors and since a person with a bipolar disorder can’t fully comprehend irritable stressors, it creates in imbalance in positive reinforcements. Positive reinforcements are the key to how we learn to change behavior. Basically a reward. For example, in my character’s case, she wanted to get better for her children, so she set out to take her medication regularly and by doing so she would be able to see her kids. Cognitive theory focuses on creativity, thinking, problem solving, language and attention span. People of depression traits are different from those of non-depressant. Cognitive theorist argue that depressive behavior is learned through observation stemming mostly from childhood. So if we witness depressive traits from our parents for example, we’re more prone to adapting those behaviors. They lack the skill of coping with problems that’s why they make their problems seen worse than they actually. Failure is always viewed in a negative