Mood disorders

Bipolar disorder is a medical condition that causes periods of mania and depression ( Manji, Martinowich, & Schloesser, 2009, p.726). The length of episodes can vary from days to weeks. Full recovery can typically be seen between episodes. The Bipolar disorder general population is 2% with the median on set age of 25 years old (Hales, Hilty, Kelly, Leamon, & Lim, 2006, p.43). Affecting both male and female alike. However, Bipolar II is more common in women, whereas Bipolar I in men (Hales, Hilty…

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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are severe eating disorders struggled by many individuals today. Anorexia nervosa is a condition of the intense fear to gain weight, which results in consistent lack of eating. Bulimia nervosa, involves frequent episodes of binge eating followed by throwing up due to fear of gaining weight. The mortality rate for anorexia is the highest of all mental disorders, yet the genetic factors relating to it were once ignored. It is easy to think that anorexia and…

Even in DSM-V it is a specifier - with peripartum onset, like in DSM-IV (6). In ICD-10 it is classified as mental disorders associated with puerperium which specifies an onset of symptoms within six weeks postpartum (7). 3.01 TIME FRAME The commencement of depression has been found to be the highest within three months after delivery when compared to the rest of the…

invalid. This essay will consider the way in which gender stereotypes act as a deterrent to male diagnoses in addition to creating limitations for females. These factors are attributed to the way women are disproportionally diagnosed with mental disorders in comparison to men. Gender plays a significant role in the study of mental health due to the actual and perceived differences with respect to males and females (Boysen, Ebersole, Casner, & Coston, 2014, p. 548). It is noted that women…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); to date the patient receives no treatment for this diagnosis. Patient reports, quitting high school the previous year, due to what he describes as depression. He recently reentered, with hopes of completing high school. Although the patient reported depression, as the reason for his departure from school, he has never received a diagnosis of this disorder. When questioned, patient denied symptomology, which indicates depressive mood. Additional…

Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Have you ever had that friend or family member that just always stood out from everyone else? The one that always seemed either very happy or extremely depressed or maybe just a little distance from others. Well, more than likely they probably are sick with some mental disorder. Even though it is common now that people have and are being diagnosed with mental disorders, it was not a few decades ago. If fact it was overlooked, or they would say that the person…

dissolved slowly in the U.S. Christine Tartaro studied the evolution of asylums. She says in her article, “Many hospitals today where patients are kept on chains still exist in many places of the world, but in the U.S. many people with psychological disorders are in jails or prisons because it is cheaper to put them there”(Tartaro 88). Unfortunately the United States provided very little care outside of hospitals most of the mentally ill are commonly left on the streets homeless, living in the…

mental health problem is known as a general anxiety disorder – which classifies as a mood disorder. Anxiety disorder involves a combination of biological and psychological processes in response to the stimulus in the environment. When anxiety begins to interfere with your regular day to day activities, making it impossible to function normally then it becomes a disorder. Anxiety is clinically confirmed as a diagnosis know as – Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). In order for someone to be…

the name Manic-Depressive disorder, or more commonly know as Bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder includes mood swings that cause different moods in a person at different times, these are called episodes. There are two types of episodes, there are manic and depressive episodes. Manic episodes being the state of mania, and depressive being the state of depression. These episodes often tend to be more frequent in children and teens. It is because of this that bipolar disorder can have a negative…