It is seen that discriminatory and stigmatizing behaviors’ could have an impact on people’s lives, therefore, it is important to map out the process and develop the social context in understanding of how behaviors’ are experienced. To address this further, Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009 challenge researchers to discover the way that stigmatizing behaviors’ impact individual lives by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods (Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009). The study shows that the researchers adopted the qualitative method to identify the discriminatory behaviors’ in related to individuals with mental health problems.
The strategy used in the study focused on how the selected participants perceive discriminatory behavior as an …show more content…
Further, the term highs and lows are of different frequency, severity and duration, and sometimes can be combinations or the opposite of the polarity symptoms (that is hypomanic, manic and depressive) (Benazzi, 2007).
BD can be difficult to detect because of its presentation and varied. However, BD detection is in adolescence and young adulthood; it could take 10 - 20 years to obtain an accurate diagnosis (Mitchell et al., 2004). Studies show that those with BD, only 30% are accurately diagnosed on first encounter (Elgie and Marseille 2007). According to Angst 2004, the disease burden in BD is suicidal thought (Angst, 2004). It is estimated that between 25% and 60% of individuals diagnosed with BD will attempt suicide at least once in their lives and between 4% and 19% will complete suicide (Goodwin and Jamison 2007). The reason behind the complete suicide in individuals with BD is because bipolar patients often deny their illness, thus delaying taking up effective treatment. Furthermore, some bipolar patients avoid to seek professional help, maybe because of the stigma related to BD (Michalak et al.,
The strategy used in the study focused on how the selected participants perceive discriminatory behavior as an …show more content…
Further, the term highs and lows are of different frequency, severity and duration, and sometimes can be combinations or the opposite of the polarity symptoms (that is hypomanic, manic and depressive) (Benazzi, 2007).
BD can be difficult to detect because of its presentation and varied. However, BD detection is in adolescence and young adulthood; it could take 10 - 20 years to obtain an accurate diagnosis (Mitchell et al., 2004). Studies show that those with BD, only 30% are accurately diagnosed on first encounter (Elgie and Marseille 2007). According to Angst 2004, the disease burden in BD is suicidal thought (Angst, 2004). It is estimated that between 25% and 60% of individuals diagnosed with BD will attempt suicide at least once in their lives and between 4% and 19% will complete suicide (Goodwin and Jamison 2007). The reason behind the complete suicide in individuals with BD is because bipolar patients often deny their illness, thus delaying taking up effective treatment. Furthermore, some bipolar patients avoid to seek professional help, maybe because of the stigma related to BD (Michalak et al.,