Bipolar disorder

Symptoms of peri-natal depression include sleep disturbances,changes in appetite, mood changes, and difficulty concentrating. There are many risks associated with untreated depression during pregnancy. They include preterm labor, growth retardation, decreased prenatal care, poor weight gain, and increased substance use. Depression during pregnancy is very common, but also under diagnosed because women feel they should be joyous since they are having a baby. Depression is very different from the…

memories. Manic depression does create imaginary worlds to live in when you ca not deal with the real world 's problems. I for years lived in a manic depression world of imaginary events and feelings. Manic depression was once known as a mental disorder, but now more research is seeing it as a physical disease instead of a mental one. I sometimes feel as if manic depression chose me for a reason. Why? It has broaden my horizons as a person. I couldn 't imagine my life without being a manic…

Doris fuller lost his daughter to a mental illness. It was a few weeks before her 29th birthday. She did it by stepping in front of a train in Baltimore. Her name was Natalie and her dad and herself wrote a book together “Promise You Wont Freak Out: A Teenager Tells her mother the truth about Boys, Booze, Body Piercings, and Other Touchy Topics (and mom responds).” Since it was such a scary concept telling the truth about her secrets they were on morning America shows and got paid to give…

Depression, by definition, is a “mental illness that is characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that were once pleasurable” (Langwith, 2009, p. 16). Signs and symptoms vary from person to person, and can be categorized from mild to severe – some of the most common being: “hopelessness, loss of energy, persistent fatigue, persistent feelings of guilt or self-criticism, sense of worthlessness, irritability, inability to…

The Huffington Post wrote a compelling article of about a father who is coming forward 12 years after his son took his life. Ryan is the thirteen year old child that took his life because of bullying and homophobic teasing. His parents took the correct approach and put him into therapy and always supported him. Unfortunately, that was not enough to help him. The family has since then took it on themselves to speak openly about suicide and how to prevent it. They have been to over 1,300 schools…

Van Gogh’s Life Through Depression At a young age, Van Gogh was thought to be a disappointment to his family for his passion to paint (Hammacher 10). His parents neglected him, and he was always in the dark when it came to his paintings (11). Van Gogh was said to have depression, but he used it to his advantage throughout his life (250). Depression is when something causes grief, extreme sadness, and low self-esteem to a person (Carlson 3).The symptoms to depression can cause a person to be…

People are addicted to their smartphones and the apps that come with it. Whether it’s to see how many followers they can get on popular apps such as Instagram and Snapchat or having the highest score on the new app game. Because of this additive trend about a million people are rather on their phone instead of having a conversation with one another. Since the breakthrough of smartphones, people rather spend time on their phones than have a face to face conversation with another person.…

Since 8th grade i have had continuous issues with my self image. I have turned into someone i never thought i would be. someone who has a dark side hidden from everyone around. everyone says it 's normal to feel “depressed” sometimes. i don’t know if that is true. the darkness and sadness that sweeps over me even when I’m sitting at the dinner table with my family is indescribable. Whenever i eat one full meal i feel disgusting and fat. i think about making myself vomit every time because my…

An Unfamiliar Diagnosis Tears streamed from the patient 's cheek and he begged the doctor, he said “Let me go back to my country, let me help my town!” The doctor assured the man that he was in his native country, and that he surely was in his home town. He said “Why John, you’ve lived in ol’ Washington, Valcry your whole life.” John glared at the doctor and while wiping the tears away from his glazed eyes shouted, “Why you! You take me away from my home town and they tell me you know how to…

provides copious amounts of research to back up her claims. Such as Andreasen’s study of writers at the Iowa Writers’ workshop, where she discovered that “the majority of the writers described significant histories of mood disorder that met diagnostic criteria for either bipolar illness or unipolar depression”. Popova praises Andreasen’s work and her book, The Creating Mind: The Neuroscience of Genius, and seems to agree with what Andreasen discovered and what it meant. Moving forward, Popova’s…