Bipolar spectrum

Supervision Assignment: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Bipolar with Children Bipolar is a disorder within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). There are two categories of bipolar, bipolar I and bipolar II. Bipolar I has three different categories known as mood episodes: manic, hypomanic, and major depressive. Bipolar disorder is associated with mood swings. A person goes from extremely happy and active, to happy and active, to depressed. There is not a cure for bipolar;…

Prior to the assigned homework I had an elementary understanding of Bipolar Disorder (BD). After reading the two assigned studies “Extra dimensions in all aspects of life-the meaning of life with bipolar disorder” and “Definitional Issues in Bipolar Disorder Across the Life Cycle” I feel they greatly expanded my understanding of BD. The videos, “Manic Episode” and “Rapid Cycling” provided me with a real life understanding of what BD looks like. In “Manic Episode” the viewer experiences what it…

Bipolar Disorder is identified as a mental illness manifested by irregular periods of excitement verse depression. It is an infection to the brain that affects how a person feels, thinks and acts. It is often found in teenagers leading to adults. Nonetheless, these two articles elaborate on diagnosing a child. It bothers me because, instead of focusing on the dynamic, causing factors, and cure for an adult, let alone a teen, these articles formed a debate around the frequency of episodes which…

increase in aggression, loss of social queues, loss of self awareness and disassociation. After reviewing Daniel Johnston 's biography some ideas of what he may have been suffering from come to mind. Daniel Johnston was most definitely suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and…

individuals are affected and living with bipolar disorder everyday. Bipolar disorder is present in approximately 5.7 million American adults, or an equivalent of 2.6 percent of the US population (Kerner, 2014). Bipolar disorder is also known as “manic depression.” It is a mental disorder that is marked by the constant changing of moods. Most of the time it goes from periods of depression to periods of being extremely happy or being very irritable. Bipolar disorder is a common, serious mental…

It can be characterized through various symptoms. The individual must have suffered from at least one manic episode, which is an abnormally long portion of a persistent expensive, irritable, and excited mood. Typically, it takes at least one week for it to be considered; however, Holden’s hospitalization and subsequent psychological evaluation allowed for there to be a shorter time period in conclusion. Depression also happens to be a symptom of this disorder. Depression is not normal sadness;…

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is characterized by the onset or intensification of depressive symptoms with the changing seasons. Although there are two seasonality types of SAD, winter and summer, winter SAD is far more prevalent than the summer type, and encompasses a more severe symptomology. According to one report, winter onset SAD affects a range of 1.4% to 9.7% of Americans depending on latitude (Roecklein, & Rohan, 2005). Another report claims that 6% of the general population is…

In the Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls writes about her early childhood struggles, which included some of her mom’s crazy episodes. Jeannette knows that her mom has some degree of mental illness that had caused her emotional breakdowns, bipolar behavior, compulsive lying, and lack of responsibility. It was also clear that Mrs. Walls lacked common sense and reason when she had possession of a million dollar property but refused to use the money to pay for the family’s needs. In the end, the…

lazy parent? (Ellis, 2012, pg1)” Between 2005 and 2011 data had been collected to show that there was an increase in mental illnesses for children ages 3-17. “ADHD (6.8%) Behavioral or conduct problems (3.5%) Anxiety (3.0%) Depression (2.1%) Autism spectrum disorders (1.1%) (CDC, 2015, para 9” the problem with these numbers is not that there going up it is that there is a misdiagnosis occurring. There is a general misconception about what someone with a mental disorder looks like. The symptoms…

It is believed that bipolar disorder is correlated with suicidal ideation. In a meta-analysis, performed by Oquendo, Currier, and Man (), they took studies from the past 30 years that indicated individuals who have expressed to act on suicidal tendencies in disorders such as major depressive and bipolar disorder, with the goal of identifying indicators of suicidal ideation. A major issue that was crossed was the elusiveness of their goal as being able to identify suicidal tendencies. Their…