Insomnia

According to, the American Psychiatric Association, there are three types of mood episodes that follow bipolar. These moods include Manic, Major Depressive and Hypomanic episodes. People with bipolar tend to experience periods of unusually intense emotions, changing in sleep patterns, activity levels and unusual behaviors (National Institute of Mental Health, 2013). These mood events are different from the moods and behaviors from an individual not suffering from a mental illness. People…

are and end up losing sleep to irregular sleep schedules, sleep disturbances and day napping (Ye, L., Hutton Johnson et al., 2015). Entering a new school environment requires students to change their usual sleeping routines, which in turn develops insomnia (Pilcheret al., 1997). The lack of sleep affects their cognitive, physical, emotional, and social development. Sleep is critical for memory connecting, learning,…

individual cannot be calmed or controlled. Mania results in an ongoing petulant mood that has to last for at least a week before it can be classified as a mania “episode”. Criteria for having a manic episode include being abnormally proud about oneself, insomnia, irritability, talkativeness, being easily sidetracked, and exhibiting poor judgment. A hypomanic episode exhibits…

I wake up in a cold sweat. I get out of bed, use the bathroom, and dive back into the void. I wonder how long it will last this time. I don’t bother looking at the clock because it seems pointless at this point. I lay there in a timeless daze pondering why Hypnos must waste his antics on me. As I dive deeper into the perpetual limbo between tired and alert, the terror sets in. I wonder if it will happen tonight, I lay there wondering until suddenly I hear something from behind my window. I try…

symptoms are more than the three symptoms that should be associated with excessive worry for one to be diagnosed with GAD. Maureen has demonstrated hyper arousal which is characterised by her elevated heart rate, irritability, insomnia, quivering, concentration problems and insomnia and tension…

in order to get more done, which is why insomnia has a higher…

The Family Systems Theory was proposed by Dr. Murray Bowen. This theory suggests that people are not individual entities, but rather a part of a larger network of family. The Family Systems Theory recognizes family as one emotional unit. The emotional state of the family unit is completely dependent on the individuals within the system (The Bowen Center, 2015). This paper will explore and use this theory to identify conflict within two families introduced in HBO’s The Alzheimer’s Project :…

the world and experiencing. All high school students are in their teenage years, that is the most crucial time of a person’s life, everyone is changing physically and biologically. According to a survey, the maximum no. of people getting anxiety, insomnia and going into depression are high school teenagers due to school work stress, personal relationships and bullying. I would like to mention a personal…

designer furniture and finds affirmation and a cure for his insomnia in attending support groups for people with terminal illness (while faking his own). It is only in these groups, surrounded by strangers that he can accept his own misery. Here he can temporarily escape his feelings of isolation and emptiness by connecting with people who are evaluating their own lives as they face death. Attending support groups also cures his insomnia, which can be seen as physical representation of his…

Sickness in Physicality Every day majority are influenced. Majority are influenced by trends, friends, and fiends. The things that all are surrounded by daily can take a toll on our physical and mental activity. Most can see that society plays a role in the way we think and react in each era. This is shown in relation to today and during Shakespeare’s time. In Shakespeare's Macbeth characters noticed problems but did not say or do anything. They ignored the issue and felt by doing that the…