Bipolar I disorder Essays

after he was diagnosed with the disorder of Bipolar. He has medication, but refuses to take the medication due to the fact that it makes him feel funny and he does not like the feeling. He had to go to therapy classes to make him feel

According to our Psychiatric mental health nursing text, bipolar disorder is “characterized by mood swigs from profound depression to extreme euphoria (mania), with intervening periods of normalcy” (2015, page 499). • What is the priority RN action for this client? The priority RN action for this client is to maintain a low level of stimuli and to observe the clients’ behavior regularly. A stimulating environment can cause anxiety levels to rise. The RN needs to “intervene at the first sign of

There are five classifications of Bipolar Disorder which are Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymia, Mixed Bipolar and Rapid-cycling. All Bipolar types experience manic or hypomanic and depressive episodes to varying degrees. Mania is defined as sudden euphoria or rage, inflated self-esteem, racing thoughts, and decreased need for sleep. The classification Bipolar I is the most severe classification, those who suffer from Bipolar I may experience manic episodes that begin suddenly and

Holden Caulfield Is Mental Roughly three percent of the United States population, approximately 314,341,830 people, suffers from bipolar disorder. Holden Caulfield, from Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, has bipolar II disorder. This particular disorder is when an individual displays two extreme demeanors, yet not at persistent levels as shown in bipolar I disorders. This novel was written during an era that did not acknowledge mental illness very often; therefore Holden did not have the tools

to be invested into how characters with psychological disorders are portrayed, whether it is accurate or misrepresented. Therefore, I will be engaging in a discussion about the accuracy and inaccuracy of how Bipolar I is portrayed in the film ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ and the television show ‘90210’. In the movie ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has spent the last eight months in a mental institution for bipolar disorder, following a violent incident. After losing his job and

The video “Ride the Tiger: A guide through the Bipolar Brain” introduced and explored new insights in brain science that are being used to create new and more effective treatments for Bipolar and depression. It is important to understand about how the biological components of these disorders affect our patents and how effective medication can be. I can use this information to guide clinical decisions when working with clients who suffer from Bipolar or Depression. Initially, this video gave me

Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness in 1995. The book, as the title describes, is an emotionally moving memoir documenting Jamison’s life. Jamison has had bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness, since young adulthood and An Unquiet Mind unapologetically takes readers through the roller coaster which is her life. Albeit bipolar disorder is hard to understand from an outside perspective, this memoir gives an honest yet informative understanding of Jamison’s personal experience with manic-depressive

Solitano and Patrick Solitano Sr., he also has a brother named Jake Solitano who is six years older than him. The main character Pat Solitano suffers from Bipolar I Disorder. Another main character that is Pat Solitano's love interest Tiffany Maxwell suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder. Pat meets the DSM-5 criteria for Bipolar I Disorder, by experiencing

concentration (“Bipolar and Related Disorders” 67). Records of Woolf experiencing several of these episodes exist. The first occurred after her mother’s death in 1895. After this, periods of depression often plagued Woolf after the completion of a novel (Briggs, An Inner Life 38). These episodes came with the cessation of the hallucinations (Briggs “Virginia Woolf Meets Sigmund Freud” par. 21), but also of creativity (Carmango 70). Woolf once said of her novel To the Lighthouse “When it was written, I ceased

Illness In my opinion, indifference is a philosophy. I believe that people follow indifference in their everyday lives. One thing I feel most people are indifferent to is mental illness. In my opinion, parents will say that their kids aren’t actually depressed, bipolar, OCD, etc. I have heard parents say that their kids are acting depressed or acting bipolar for attention, but in reality mental illness affects about 18.5% of Americans in a year. I believe some people also do not deal with mental illness

I choose this book as a personal curiosity as I have always wondered if I was a bit autistic. Throughout my life, I have been labeled as intellectually gifted, but emotionally challenged. As a child, I had anger issues and never had many friends, often socially awkward. So, I wanted to read a book to see how a person who does have autism was. I wanted to see if I had some of the same issues and complaints. For instance, I had many surgeries and other issues as a child and teenager, all of which I

Schizoaffective disorder: Daniel Daniel is a 17-year-old Spanish decent male who was rushed to the hospital with Auditory hallucinations, Euphoria and Paranoid contemplations and thoughts. Daniel has no history of alcohol or substance misuse, or any medical history but his mother expressed he has become socially withdrawn which began around the age of 13, this happened after the passing of his dad who was 40 years more established than his mom. During that time he became very withdrawn toward family

he becomes irritable like this, he becomes theatrical, using excessive hand gestures. His speech becomes forceful and increasingly loud. When he became agitated because he could not find his wedding video, he began yelling “I’m not calming down. I don’t give a fuck who hears,” after his mother told him to calm down. During situations such as these, Pat also experiences flight of ideas, with racing thoughts

Antidepressants can be an effective treatment for depression but, like all medications there are side effects, drawbacks but also many pro’s. In this essay I will discuss the pro’s and con’s of antidepressants such as cost, side effects, and safety. Antidepressants, while an effective treatment can be very expensive. For those who do not have insurance or struggle to afford medications, the high price of these drugs can lead to a patient's depression getting worse. This problem is not exclusive

local high school where his wife and the man that slept with his wife also worked at. After the ‘outburst’ his wife (Nikki) decided to leave Pat and to move out and sell their house they had lived in together. Pat was then diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder after the ‘outburst’, before that he had lived with un-diagnosed

complete despair, hopelessness and a lack of purpose in life and enthusiasm for the world around them. Depression may be one part of another condition or it may be its own concern apart from any other illnesses. It is a symptom of bipolar disorder, but not the entire disorder, depression is a very large part of manic depression and other associated illnesses but not the whole of manic depression. Although depression

with overcoming her obstacle as much as she could while Vincent Van Gogh tried but gave up at the end of his life. In the passage of Susan B Anthony Dares to Vote, it states, “‘ May it please your honor,’ Anthony replied. ‘I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women… that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.’” Words such as “never” and “persistently” show that she is refusing to ever give up. While as Van Gogh had killed

Throughout this class I began realizing that I look at money in a more careful way than I should, but until reading this book I did not know that I was actually beginning to question my money scripts. In Chapter 1, a money scripts questionnaire was presented, and I rated “strongly agree” or “agree” to five key choices: it is important to save for a rainy day, I have to work hard to be sure I have enough money, I deserve money, more money will make you happier, and things would get better if I had more money

There are two main sociological strands that approach the issue of suicide, which are the Interpretivist approach and the Positivist approach, which differ tremendously in their theories on the subject of suicide. One of the most famous positivists who studied suicide is Emile Durkheim (1952), he saw suicide as a social fact, as did other positivist sociologists, which meant that suicide was able to be studied scientifically. In his study, Durkheim (1952) used already available statistics about suicide

“Candy looked unhappily, he said softly. No I couldn’t do that. I had him too long” Candy could not kill his dog, and he was sad when they told him that it was time to shoot your dog, it might be a dog to them but it was more than a dog to him, it was his friend. Candy did not want to feel lonely, he was