Bipolar Disorder Breawn D. Mitchell HCA/240 May 19, 2013 Pamela S. Card Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a severe mental condition that causes a person to have emotions that are extremely intense and unpredictable. Individuals with this condition will change from ultimate cheerfulness, energy, and clarity to complete anguish, fatigue, and agitation. Suffering from this condition could lead to suicide. The individual can experience moods that are highly elevated that can last a minimum
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PSY/450 Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a long-term brain disorder that causes sporadic shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out daily living tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder can be very severe. Individuals suffering from bipolar disorder can experience the normal ups and downs but at a more intense level than that of which all individuals experience from one time to another (BIPOLAR DISORDER, n.d.). Bipolar disorder often appears in the later teen years
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BipoBipolar disorder, also known as manicdepressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Bipolar disorder is A lifelong stipulation A temper disarray that can drive immoderate drops in temper—from manic highs to saddening lows. Depression- Depression is one of the a couple of behaviors an individual endures from when he or she is bipolar. Though anyone can get bipolar and suffer from depression
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Understanding the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder can be a matter of life and death to yourself or someone you may know. In high school, we all had this friend who was struggling. We all loved her, on some days she was very happy and a blast to be around. On other days, she didn’t even seem like herself, almost as if she was a totally different person. We couldn’t talk to her, and she would do things that were very embarrassing to her, and very embarrassing to us. As time went on she
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The Bipolar Disorder Barbara Nelson Liberty University Abstract Those with bipolar disorders have changes in mood that effect energy and
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Bipolar Disorder HCA/240 Prepared by: Ta’Kesha N. Cutter Prepared for: Wanda Carter Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, has been researched since the 1st Century in Greece, and is one of the earliest recorded illnesses. Bipolar disorder causes extreme mood swings. These mood swings include extreme lows such as depression, as well as extreme highs such as mania or hypomania. When one becomes depressed they may feel hopeless or sad and lose interest or pleasure
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Bipolar Disorder Everybody have some kind of mood swing in their life. Moods may be happy or sad; energized or sluggish; embodying various combinations of emotional states. A mood might consist of feelings as well as the thoughts and judgments that give feelings their meaning. An anxious mood may shift into an excited mood with a simple change of perspective, and a depressed mood may shift into a happier one upon hearing pleasing news. Moods are typically transient things that shift from
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commonly known as Bipolar Disorder(Some Facts On Bipolar Disorder). Bipolar disorder is a major mood disorder that causes episodes of mania and depression and is a lifelong psychological disorder. . There are three types of bipolar disorders: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Cyclothymia. They all have similar symptoms but are categorized by manic and depressive episodes of different length and severity. Bipolar I is categorized by both mixed and manic episodes that last at least a week. Bipolar II is more
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The History of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder also known by many as manic depression is a serious mental disorder that is associated by unusual and severe changes in a person’s mood, the changes range from feeling low and depressed to the high state of euphoria (manic), it is these changes that are the classical symptoms of Bipolar Disorder. This disorder has been around for a very long time; in fact it wasn’t until the end of the 20th century that the disease was officially legitimized
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Bi-Polar Disorder HCA/240 Bi-Polar Disorder Bipolar disorder is one of the oldest mental disorders that have been recorded. In the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. it was believed that depression was caused by a body fluid known as black bile, while mania was caused by another fluid called yellow bile. Hippocrates recommended proper diet, drink and abstinence from sexual activity as cures. In the 2nd century A.D. a Greek physician named Aretaeus of Cappodociam first made note in his
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