Bipolar disorder

Swartz a Psychiatrist and director of the John Hopkins Mood Disorder Center 20% of bipolar patients commit suicide without medication. Without meds your depression may lead to suicide. Students who do not receive treatment have more outburst and a hard time paying attention. This can cause a daily struggle and cause stress in parents without the child taking medication. Next, taking medication can have a better powerful effect on bipolar patients. Lucie mother of child on medication, “Within…

To understand emotion regulation, we must first discuss what emotions are which can be broken down into two core features. According to Gross (2013) these core features are “when it occurs” and “its multifaceted nature” (Gross, 2013, 4). Emotions are believed to occur when “an individual attends to and evaluates (appraises) a situation as being relevant to a particular type of currently active goal” (Gross, 2013, 4) this reaction that the person has to situation is what is called an emotion. The…

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that 1% of the population is affected by. That would be about 51 million people around the world that possess schizophrenia. James Regan says, “It’s not something you catch or something someone does to you, it’s a disease only we don’t know exactly what causes it.” There are different types of schizophrenia. There is delusions, disorganized speech, strange behavior, withdrawn, and lifeless mind. Delusions, is explained as someone who has held believes that are…

I took this because my mother has bipolar depression and I have my suspicions that I may have a minor level of it as well. I scored an 88 on it which means that I have several symptoms of bipolar depression. Although I thought that I may be bipolar, this quiz has prompted me to tell someone about it and possibly seek help for it. The one assessment that truly shocked me was the parenting…

This is the episode I will primarily focus on in my analysis. Monica suffers from bipolar disorder as well as drug and alcohol abuse, so it is no surprise when she returns home a train-wreck. Frank’s deceased mother left money behind for all of her children, except for Frank. Frank attempts to improve Monica’s mood by trying to get her to…

Many types of psychological pathology, such as bipolar disorder, seem to have their roots in genetics but biology alone is not enough to account for pathology. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013), Bipolar I Disorder is characterized by at least one major depressive episode lasting at least two weeks which includes symptoms such as depressed mood…

A. Assessment summary. Pat’s goal of getting back together with his wife needs to be addressed immediately in treatment. As his wife has a restraining order against him, it is important to ensure that he understands that he has to respect that and leave her alone. Because this is Pat’s biggest goal, it might be beneficial to help him evaluate why Nikki does not feel safe around him and how he can respect that. It would be beneficial to learn why Pat thinks that reading all of the books on…

inappropriate to the current situation. (Price). Pathological disturbances of mood may follow a bipolar course, in with normal moods alternate with both depression and mania. (Price). If a teen spends too much time on screens, then damage to the Prefrontal Cortex could occur, causing mental illnesses. Damage to the Frontal lobe could result into mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, mania, bipolar disorder, or even…

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was little she was trapped in an unhealthy mental situation. Her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker, was also mentally unstable and often kept in an asylum. Marilyn Monroe suffered from depression and bipolar disorder almost all her life. She was constantly on medication and had a history of abusing it. Marilyn was found dead later to be determined as an overdose. In the past, Marilyn had a tendency to overdose on her sedatives as suicide attempts. The sedatives…

All about Suicide “Humankind’s biggest health problem is humankind” (Dokoupil 3). A large portion of the world’s population is suicidal or has suicidal tendencies; not everyone notices these people and not all approve of them. Some people think the world would be better without suicidal people because they do not understand them. Are suicidal people needed? There are many horrible contributions that add up to a successful suicide; but there are also many ways to prevent them. First and…