Mood stabilizer

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…

Introduction Explanation of Disorder Currently, it is estimated that 10% of people aged 18-24 years have bipolar disorder (Liebert, 2013). Bipolar disorders are similar to depressive disorders in many ways. Bipolar disorder is characterized by the fluctuation of manic and depressive episodes (Durand & Barlow, 2016). This disorder has been shown to have a genetic link, however, environmental factors may play a role in the cause. Certain life events, such as stress in relationships, can trigger…

Ed Gein: A Schizophrenic Psychopath “When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick.” - Ed Gein Ed was part of 1.2% of the world who suffered from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder in which a person hears auditory hallucinations, has disorganized thinking, their speech is diminished and they have inappropriate emotion. Many people who…

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…

A subject that seems to ruffle everyone’s feathers when it is brought up, is the topic of legalization of marijuana. When people hear of marijuana, they automatically think negatively about it, mostly because it is classified as an illegal drug. There has been a long history with marijuana and the “problems” that it has caused over the years. Starting out as an herb, marijuana slowly became classified, along with all the other more dangerous drugs, under the same category as them. But if people…

The closed scenes three point lighting low, med and high key lighting to illustrate the mood of that scene. Three point lighting were used in the war scene to demonstrate the heat and motion with T. Lawrence and the audience and it was a bit off the Mise en scene rule but yet was…

last up to two weeks. This is a normal part of early motherhood. According to American pregnancy baby blues can happen to 70- 80% of new mothers. They can experience negative feeling of their self of the child or have mood swings. Some symptoms that mother should know about are mood swings, anxiety, sadness, irritability, feeling overwhelmed, crying, reduced concentration, appetite problems and trouble sleeping. The mother might feel weepy emotion…

mental meltdowns or anger episodes; therefore, she could had easily chosen to take the proper medication for her illness. There are multiple type of treatments for a person with mental disorder that could use to manage the illness: for example, mood stabilizers, Electroconvulsive therapy and meditation (NAMI). Not all treatments are expensive thus she had no excuse to not get herself treated. Since she received government aid, Section 8 (housing) and government disability check, she could had…

two different treatment options that may be available, medicinal or psychotherapy. With medicinal treatment people who suffer from PTSD are often prescribed anti-depressants such as Prozac or Zoloft; tranquilizers such as Ativan or Klonopin; mood stabilizers such as Depakote and Lamictal; and neuroleptics such as Abilify. (Joseph Goldberg, MD 2014) There are several different types of psychotherapy treatments that have been used all have a different success with each person being treated.…

Rett syndrome is when gene “…MeCP2, a protein that dims the activity of many genes in nerve cells that influence synapse formation or function. The Absence of MeCP2 causes dendrites, tree-like structures on neurons that receive incoming messages, to contain fewer spines, or spots for synapses to grow. The synapses that do develop do not function normally” (Bilimoria). Affecting mostly females this syndrome causes the connections to be extremely weak. Rett syndrome causes slow growth, loss of…