Mania

Demographics are important when researching mental illnesses in individuals. These traits help professionals like epidemiologists gather data that can help decide what types of people could potentially become mentally ill. Epidemiologists will obtain demographics for surveying purposes. Information such as age, race, and marital status, to name a few, gives reliability in one’s study. (Cockerham 2014) Biological differences that men and women have, can contribute to mental illness. Women for…

Partial seizure is described as focal seizure. It take place in just one part of the brain that serves as an irritant pouring the epileptic response. In partial seizure, patient experience a range of bizarre or strange sensations including abrupt jerky movements of one body parts, alterations in hearing or seeing, discomfort in stomach or a sudden sense of fear. Consciousness is not impaired in this seizure (Shorvon et al., 2004). Partial seizures are further classified into simple partial…

In the movie “Helter Skelter” the presence of the distortion of the self-image is shown throughout the film. The film, in short, is about the rise and fall of a top Japanese idol named Lillico. Lillico is obsessed with looking youthful to the point that she has none of her original features left. Bought at a price, the exact cost of changing her looks reveals itself slowly throughout the film. This movie shows an example of the psychological perspective, in how Japan's celebrity culture is…

The presence of a lot of energy is an outstanding feature of the case described here. Further, she seems to have convinced herself that she has ADHD and through undying efforts, Perla found a lot of information on the internet that further affirmed her position. She also abuses substances that she believes would play an integral role in helping contain her condition. If anyone propounds views that differ with hers, Perla ends up getting irritated. It is worth heeding that the inconsistent nature…

Introduction Headaches are pain that is found any region of the head. Nerves, blood vessels and muscles found in the head and neck area are all involved in the causes of headaches; usually over activity of these structures and chemical actions can all be sources of why the condition exists. Primary headaches are symptoms that are not caused by another ailment. They can be categorized into migraines, tension headaches, and cluster headaches. A very common type of head ache is tension headaches…

Emotional processing and cognitive function are two main problematic areas in bipolar disorder. The patients with bipolar disorder may not be able to use cognitive functions to arrange and maintain emotional states and indeed, any defect in these functions leads to dysfunction in their processing and emotion regulation. Rumination is one of the cognitive symptoms associated with depression which is common in bipolar disorder. Ruminations affect some cognitive functions and emotional processing.…

Rogers. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC Evidence-Based Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Depression, and mixed Features (JUNE 2015) Vol. 64, No 6 Supplement to The Journal of Family Practice. Bipolar disorder (BPD) is usually found in the primary care setting. There is a high rate of people that are being misdiagnosed of BPD. Recognizing this early on is better to get treatment for these patients. Once a diagnosis is established the doctors will recommend and start drugs and mental…

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that makes you go from one emotion to another in a matter of seconds. This mental disorder is rare but still affects 5.7 million adults in the United States. Bipolar is often described as, “scary, weird or unusual.” But it’s actually very treatable with the help of medication and/ or therapy. This mental disorder isn’t really self-diagnosable. You should go to a doctor if you have any uncertainty about your symptoms. Some symptoms of bipolar disorder are…

What is Bipolar Disorder? It is also called "Manic Depression". Bipolar Disorder is a disorder associated with plenty episodes of mood swings ranging from depressing lows and manic highs. This disorder can not be cured but some treatments may help and calm it down. It is very chronic and can last for years and be life long. You have to go to the doctor and it requires a medical diagnosis. People tend to diagnose themselves with Bipolar Disorder. This does not require any lab test or imaging.…

After reading Roxana’s vignette, it is apparent that she has dissociative amnesia, with possible dissociative fugue (XXXX; XXXX). Roxana symptoms that she presents in the vignette are trouble remembering events, loss of recollection of several days, inflated confidence when retroactively determined that she was in a dissociative state, followed by a markedly dazed state following coming out of the dissociative state. She also presents feelings of being “old”, cultural and familial stressors, as…