Bipolar disorder used to be known as manic depressive disorder or manic depression. It's a serious mental illness, one that can lead to risky behavior, damaged relationships and careers, and even suicidal tendencies if it's not treated. Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme changes in mood, from mania to depression. Between these mood episodes, a person with bipolar disorder may experience normal moods. "Manic" describes an increasingly restless, energetic, talkative, reckless, powerful, euphoric
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The article “Sensory Stimulation in Dementia” discusses an alternative to handling behavioral problems in senior citizen who suffer from dementia. More often than not, older individuals with dementia will experience symptoms often attributed to psychiatric patients. These include anxiety, hostility, wandering, depression, delusions, disrupted sleep, and hallucinations. The most common form of treatment for such symptoms is either institutional care or behavioral treatment. In addition to either
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Mood Disorders someone BEH/225 12/18/2011 JS Mood Disorders Mood disorders are characterized by disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state, sometimes referred to as affect. Mood disorders are characterized by depression and/or mania. While "mood" is extremely subjective and often used interchangeably with "feeling" or "emotion," the psychiatric profession classifies mood disorders as a group of defined mental disorders. In some people with mood disorders, this range is greatly restricted
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proven factual. The first disorder I found was Seasonal Affective Disorder which is primarily individuals whose moods are determined by the weather. Another topic I discover was that “normal” health individuals are affected by the weather as well. The topic that stood out the most to me is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). I chose to accept this topic because rarely so I hear anything about SAD let alone someone talking about it. WHAT IS SAD? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a type of depression
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achievement in light of a diagnosis of depression. The main idea of the article is that although there is little information on practical instructional accommodations and “no evidence-based depression specific school interventions for the disorder” (CITATION,50), there are still steps teachers, school personnel and parents can take to provide the best possible learning environment for affected students. The keys to this are the early identification of at risk children and the consistent monitoring
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Yellow Yellow is a short story written by Peter Carty. The main character is a man called Jon. Jon has troubles with alcohol and he also has some social problems. The story sets in Egypt, more precisely on the coast of The Red Sea. We do not get much information about the settings. They are mostly at the hotel or under the water. The main character Jon has just arrived at the hotel which he is going to stay at. In line 4 we hear about his alcohol problem – “and tucked into his duty-free”.
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doctors use the word in two different ways. They can use it to describe the symptom of a 'low mood', or to refer to a specific illness, i.e. a 'depressive illness'. This factsheet relates to depression, the illness. This confusion is made all the worse because it is often difficult to tell the difference between feeling gloomy and having a depressive illness. Doctors make a diagnosis of depression after assessing the severity of the low mood, other associated symptoms and the duration of the problem
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External Factors Contributing to Depression Depression is most commonly characterized by depressive moods and feelings of low self worth or guilt, a disease affecting approximately 121 million people (World Health Organization, 2011). Despite these high numbers, the many factors that contribute to depression remain under debate. Depression is commonly treated with antidepressant medication that aims to normalize brain function, often through the uptake of neurotransmitters such as serotonin (Moncrieff
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to daily events and do not affect their lives greatly or the lives of people around them. The moods of people with mood disorders, in contrast, tend to last a long time. Their mood colors all of their interactions with the world and interferes with normal functioning of their daily lives. (Comer, 2011) According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, Patients with bipolar disorder differ from patients with unipolar depression by having family histories of mania with an earlier onset and by having
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be to approach the issue from a cognitive behavioral perspective because this angle of methodology outlines the basis for how the spiraling effects of change alter the minds subconscious and argumentatively the actions of persons influence by the disorder. Supporting Argument 1: Ruminative thinking impairs judgment. "The majority of research on cognitive functioning in depression to date has focused on loss of motivation and rumination (r.g., Fossati, Ergis, & Allilaire, 2002; Hertel, 2000;
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