George Lawler is a thirty five year old man who is a high school track coach was taken to a psychiatric hospital and was admitted for Bipolar I disorder. Lawler has been going through series of both major and manic depressive episodes. He also is delusional and thinks he is an Olympic team coach. Lawler’s delusions show that he has a very high self-esteem and dignity. Lawler would not sleep much either. There would be times where he would not sleep for a long period of time. His thoughts are on warp speed and it causes to have him “talking a mile a minute” (Case Study). Lawler also displays a high level in goal directed behavior (NIMH). He stayed proactive by planning the night before for the next track meet. Lawler was highly determined to create new plans for his track team. Lawler’s manic episodes were very different from the depression Lawler would go through. We look back in junior college where Lawler had his worst major depressive episode. According to his friends, Lawler was depressed and he had no care for anything. Everything he was once interested in was all gone. He showed a lack of emotion to it. He was detached from the world. You would find him in his room all alone. Lawler’s social life slowly started to decrease and he would end up staying in his apartment and not go anywhere. In junior high school, Lawler was in a football team. He would neglect the team and not show up for practices or games. His coach addressed his concern with Lawler. Later on, Lawler continued to have episodes of depression. Along with depression, he showed signs of suicide and he had trouble sleeping (Case Study). The main character that brings upon a conflict with Lawler is his unstable relationship with his father. Lawler’s father was als... ... middle of paper ... ...trol. There would be constant disruptions to the ward, during meal times and when other patients were sleeping. He would make noises and start running around. Few days later, Lawler finally came to a state of complete exhaustion. He finally slept and after three days his behavior was improving. His attitude was a little bit mellower. His dramatic motor behavior was lessened but yet not normal. Lawler continued to be “talking a mile a minute”. His mood was still very much unstable. He would go from being funny, and amusing to being irritable. To the rest of the patients, Lawler was energetic (Case Study). Lawler was changed to voluntary status at the hospital and he was aware of the previous condition. The leftover symptoms were destroyed as time went by. He came to an understanding that he could have really hurt someone. Lawler was aware of his actions (Case Study).
A sudden urge to snoop through her boyfriend's phone, a sudden urge to rid her home of nonexistent bedbugs, and a sudden urge to distrust her closest friends. Although these impulses were atypical for Cahalan, she shrugged them off and attempted to continue her life as normal. Her “normal” life began to consist of incoherent rambling, emotional instability, and frequent seizures. Close friends and family decided it was time for a checkup, and convinced Cahalan to comply.
Sam’s dad committed suicide after struggling with bipolar disorder. Sam didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of his father, which may have given him the upper hand when having to deal with those thoughts. If Sam didn’t have this psychological disorder he wouldn’t have these troubling or confusing symptoms. Dysfunction is the inability to function as expected in social and occupational activities. When Sam was in his depressed state, he found it hard to hold a job.
For my case study my group and I chose the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and we chose Alex Forrest for our case study. For my part I chose to do the diagnosis aspect on Alex Forrest. Throughout this paper I will be diagnosing Alex Forrest. The following key clinical data will be discussed: client demographics, presenting problem, preliminary diagnostic information, symptoms, client characteristics and history, diagnostic impressions, potential disorders, and the DSM diagnosis.
I have chosen to do a paper on Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar is a disorder in when a person’s mood inappropriately alternates between feelings of mania and depression. A bipolar mania is a mental illness classified by psychiatry as a mood disorder. Also individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of an elevated or agitated mood known as mania or hypomania, depending on the severity alternating with episodes of depression.
The article opens with a former football player and offensive lineman, Kyle Turley, who begins having episodes while he was at a bar with his family and friends. Turley was passing out, puking, becoming paranoid, and began to overall lose control of everything.
The severe mood fluctuations of bipolar or manic-depressive disorders have been around since the 16-century and affect little more than 2% of the population in both sexes, all races, and all parts of the world (Harmon 3). Researchers think that the cause is genetic, but it is still unknown. The one fact of which we are painfully aware of is that bipolar disorder severely undermines its victims ability to obtain and maintain social and occupational success. Because the symptoms of bipolar disorder are so debilitation, it is crucial that we search for possible treatments and cures.
In this paper the reader will be able to find a variety of different areas covered. A detailed summary of the movie 28 days directed by Betty Thomas in 2000 will start the paper. The diagnostic criteria of a psychiatric disease will be included along with rationales why the main character fits the diagnosis of disease. Included is the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of coping mechanisms. Pharmacological with classification and non-pharmacological treatments will be included in addition to discussion of ethical and legal issues. This paper will include whether it would be an acceptable fit for patients or families with the same diagnosis. Lastly, will be an overall conclusion of the information provided in the paper.
There were often some cases where my patient became very agitated and was verbally aggressive. Mr Grey also refused to have any treatment and began to refuse to have his observations done regularly which became a huge concern for the team and I as we previously knew
Given the descriptions of the mental illnesses in our textbook, lectures and various media outlets about the illnesses shown in the HBO movie “Back from Madness – The Struggle for Sanity” I was still surprised how illnesses really affect people (HBO, 1990). When reading textbooks, various media outlets and research papers it is extremely difficult to understand completely the severity of a mental illness. These sources are just descriptions of the illness it doesn’t give a personal account of what the patient is going threw. Taking in account the real affects of having a mental illness on the patient, their family and friends. I was surprised when viewing the documentary that a person with Bipolar I disorder (manic depression) acted the way Todd did. I am aware that Bipolar I disorder is known as someone who has a manic occurrence that results in a period of bizarre elevated mood and behavior that interrupts life. The person will most likely experience episodes of depression. The behavior that I saw from Todd in the movie was completely different than I imagined people who have Bipol...
Being able to determine the difference between normal and abnormal behavior is crucial in psychology, but how can someone judge someone’s sanity? It is difficult to put boundaries on such a “soft” area, but there are certain criteria to help in diagnosis. One factor is Bizarreness of the Behavior, which depends greatly on the context in which the behavior occurs. Another is Persistence of Behavior. People can show abnormal behavior without having a mental health problem. However when that abnormal behavior is exhibited on a regular basis, a mental health problem may be present. Another criterion is Subjective Distress, when people are aware of their own psychological difficulties and the distress it brings them. Psychological Handicap is the term used when the subject finds it impossible to be content with life because of their psychological troubles. These are all guidelines to help depict normal and abnormal behavior in psychology.
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 28. (2000): 315-324. Web. The Web. The Web. 13 Apr 2011.
The main character Pat who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, displayed signs of manic episodes such as: fast talking, rambling with words, and no sleep. There were about 3 scenes of Pat waking his parents up early in the morning because he was looking for something, or could not wait to tell them something in the morning. Throughout most of the film, Pat exhibits a lot of delusions. Before hospitalization, it is briefly mentioned that Pat was accusing his wife and another teacher (who ironically was the man who this wife cheated on) embezzling money from him. After hospitalization, there were delusions that him and his wife were perfect for each other and they were going to be work through their marriage when that clearly was not the
Vickers, E. (2014, February 11). Mental Health in the Student-Athlete. - The Sport In Mind – Sport Psychology. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/mental-health-in-the-student-athlete/
A biological origin could be George’s genetics. His uncle Ralph had a history of mental illness, and bipolar disorder is closely associated with genetics (Wiley). On the other hand, a psychosocial origin could be reward sensitivity. George’s track teams are considerably recognized on the college campus, and George also won an award for his coaching abilities prior to the climax of the third manic episode. This reward sensitivity could have led to the delusion that he was named the Olympic track team’s head coach.
.... After meeting with Robert Downey Jr. over the past few years he has shown and expressed his psychological disorders with me. It seems that every time Downey tried to get his life together, he overloads himself, which stresses him out. Being stressed is one symptom of Bipolar, so when he is going through one of his episodes, that is when he breaks his sober streak and goes down hill all over again. Making it extremely difficult to get back to where he should be. In situations like Downey, it takes as much as hitting rock bottom before he realizes how much he has corrupted and affected not only his own life, but also his friends and family that are trying to help him get better. This document is entirely fictional, that the person named in the evaluation was never actually evaluated, and that the report author is not qualified to conduct psychological evaluations.