Learning about personality disorders has proven to be a challenge to me, because I have constantly found myself worrying about all of the little symptoms I see in both myself and my friends. It feels like I’m constantly trying to diagnose us because they are mostly late onset diseases. Though there were many interesting points, to read the article The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder only served to aid that silly concern.
The first part of the article that stood out to me was the fact that the onset of Maria Doe´s illness was insidious, gradual, and inexorable.” How scary it must be to all of the sudden start to feel like you aren’t yourself and things are getting bad but to not be able to do anything about it. She talks about having an idea of what it is because she battled depression some in high school, but still having no idea what to do about the new way she was feeling.
A little later in the article the author is discussing her interaction with other mothers and how they never quite believed how serious her feelings were. They would roll their eyes and agree wi...
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mood disorder characterized by periods of mania, depression, or a mixed manic-depressive state. The condition can seriously affect a person’s reasoning, understanding, awareness, and behavior. Acco...
Personality disorders have always been viewed as a possible category for a psychological disorder. However, in the new edition of the DSM, it will be getting its own diagnostic category. In viewing personality disorder, one can only agree that it should have its own diagnostic category. The reason that these changes are being supported is because of the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders.
Bipolar Disorder (BD) affects about 2 million people in the United States in any given year. This troubling mental illness can disrupt a person’s daily life and often leads to thoughts of suicide or death. People who get inappropriately diagnosed with BD often get treated with medication that is unnecessary and potentially harmful. BD has become one of the most over diagnosed mental disorders, this due to the overlapping features between BP and other personality disorders. The creation of a universal assessment technique and reeducating the public and professionals would reduce the over-diagnosis problem.
Bipolar disorder is more common than thought. It is being more diagnoised in younger ages than adults. There are a few causes and triggers of biplolar disorder. There are numerous signs and symptoms of mania and depression. Bipolar disorder in children and adults differ in a few ways. Three differents types of treatments are avilable. There is also a few places to go for help. Bipolar disorder can be can lead to serious issues if left untreated thats why its important to be educated about bipolar to help loved ones.
Is bipolar disorder the cause of great madness or great genius? The symptoms of this mental illness may also be considered as the driving forces behind some of the most gifted and talented people to grace our society. Although individuals with this illness may have some obstacles to overcome, it can be accomplished. With all of the treatment programs that are widely available, people have many options and methods to turn to for help.
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...f the bad that is going on in her real life, so she would have a happy place to live. With the collapse of her happy place her defense was gone and she had no protection from her insanity anymore. This caused all of her blocked out thoughts to swarm her mind and turn her completely insane. When the doctor found her, he tried to go in and help her. When the doctor finally got in he fainted because he had made so many positive changes with her and was utterly distressed when he found out that it was all for naught. This woman had made a safety net within her mind so that she would not have to deal with the reality of being in an insane asylum, but in the end everything failed and it seems that what she had been protecting herself from finally conquered her. She was then forced to succumb to her breakdown and realize that she was in the insane asylum for the long run.
Thomas, P. (2004). The many forms of bipolar disorder: a modern look at an old illness (Research report). Retrieved from http://www.lnfp.dr18.cnrs.fr/publication_labo/The_many.pdf
This paper will discuss bipolar disease and is also called manic-depressive illness. It will discuss the causes and prevalence of bipolar disease. It will also discuss the signs of symptoms of the disease. The diagnosis and treatment of bipolar will be discussed. Several studies are included in this paper.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong and recurrent illness. This illness will give negative effect if not give treatment. Bipolar disorder patients will experience a life in disarray and failed to carry out their daily activities. Patients become hyperactive and irresponsible when they are at manic phase. For example, the patient more denied when they are have problem and be aggressive when what they are want, they are not get it. In depressive phase, the patient will not able to continue their daily routine of life, such as they not able to work, get enough sleep and so on . Early diagnosis and treatment is able to avoid these problem. Some combination of factors are needed to treatment the patient of bipolar disorder. In this cases, medication only is not enough to help in treatment for bipolar disorder’s patient. The best treatment for this patient case, are communication with doctor and their therapist, such as sharing what their feeling and thinking in their session, another best treatment is have a strong support for people around them. For example, parents, wife, friends and neighbor. They also should choose the health of lifestyle such as jogging, dance and the last is discipline and follow all the pelan treatment . Bipolar disorder’s patient not able to get well in short time treatment, because they need a long time treatment to help them.
Crowe, M. (2011). Feeling out of control: A qualitative analysis of the impact of bipolar
Paris, J. (2004), Psychiatric diagnosis and the bipolar spectrum, in Canadian Psychiatric Association Bulletin, viewed on 28 March 2014, http://ww1.cpa-apc.org:8080/publications/bulletin/currentjune/editorialEn.asp.
Eric Beck meets criteria for Bipolar 1 disorder. He shows some signs of General Anxiety Disorder as well. Anxiety disorders are the most coming co-occurring disorder with Bipolar 1. To be diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder you must meet criteria for Major Depressive Episode and Manic Episode. Eric meets criteria for part A of Major Depressive Episode due to his extensive history of depression. He stated that “I suffer even when doing things, I should enjoy.” He often had feelings of guilt or worthlessness. Along with this Eric struggled from a lack of concentration. He also had recurrent thoughts of death and has tried to commit suicide.
In her essay, “Motherhood: Who Needs It?”, Betty Rollin emphasizes the pressures of motherhood that society puts on women and highlights the fact that becoming a mother is not a natural instinct.
BPD is a complex disorder in a sense that the symptoms such as depression, anxiety and substance abuse may cause a misdiagnosis thus overlooking BPD completely (Biskin & Paris, 2013). This personality disorder has also been known to occur simultaneously with anxiety disorders, eating disorders and bipolar mood disorders (Butcher, Mineka & Hooley, 2014). In addition, the prevalence of BPD decreases in older individuals (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).