and bipolar disorder, as well as, their symptoms, causes, and treatments. Unipolar disorder is also known as clinical depression or major depressive disorder. With this disorder people will only experience depression and have no signs of mania. According to (Kerr, 2012), “people that experience unipolar disorder are more likely to use alcohol or other illegal substances, have an increase in mental and physical health issues, and they have a greater risk of suicide.” Unipolar disorder can also
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Childhood Depression Abstract Empirical evidence shows that that depression disorder in children is a common condition that affects emotional, physical, and social development. Risk factors include parental conflict, a family history of depression, poor peer relationship, negative thinking, and deficit in coping skills. Treatment criteria of children and adults are the same, with the exception that children may display irritability rather than depressed or sad mood, and loss of weight may be
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essay, the manner in which this thinking pattern has been found to worsen patients’ depressed condition is further investigated. Subsequently, a large part of it will explore research on two forms of treatment that have been tested for its work with depressive rumination, specifically, metacognitive therapy, which seeks to removing patients’ Cognitive Attentional Syndrome and alter their metacognitive beliefs, and rumination-focused cognitive behaviour therapy, that aims to help reduce maladaptive ruminative
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Bipolar disorder was once known as manic-depressive disorder, and has caught the interest in scholars dating back to ancient Greece. Yet it still remains a mystery in many ways. Hypomania, with its euphoria, energy, and productivity, has been described as a powerful elixir, and here is no other psychiatric condition in which people report craving the return of symptoms. But with this, Amazing work has come from people with bipolar disorders, like Vincent Van Gogh, Martin Luther, Amy Lowell, and other
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WHAT DREAMS MAY COME By Stephanie Bader June 4, 2013 Herzing University – Kenosha, WI In this paper I will be discussing the movie What Dreams May Come. I will talk about what happens in the movie and the disease that are in it. I will discuss the diseases which are depression and suicide separately. So first I will discuss the movie, next, I will discuss depression and the different types of depression, then, and I will discuss suicide. Finally I will discuss how the different diseases are
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Disorders of Mood and Addiction Stephanie MacPherson PSY/275 June 15, 2015 Barry Brooks Disorders of Mood and Addiction Everyone experiences, from time to time, periods of sadness, fatigue, or unhappy thoughts. Among the United States population, around eight to ten percent suffer from a pattern of depression known as unipolar depression. Depressive and bipolar disorders show to be a leading cause of disability, without treatment a person can have a difficult experience with relationships
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amongst women are considerably startling because one out of every eight woman are the ones who are affected and suffer with the onset of major depression. That women are twice as likely as men to have depression is a consistent finding in psychiatric epidemiology and is not simply a consequence of females being more likely to report, recall or seek help for depressive symptoms. Before puberty, boys are slightly more likely than girls to be
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are just a few major changes women embrace within a lifetime. This can add additional pressure to keep up with society or keep our families happy by going above and beyond the call of duty. Women tend to be the caretaker of the family and in general want to please everyone especially their children. The daily routine of a mother is often unappreciated and misunderstood. This added stress, whether it be at home or at work, can trigger different reactions such as eating disorders, anxiety, and drug
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Abstract Seasonal affective disorder is currently on the rise with statistics showing that more than10 million Americans have been affected by the disorder. Additionally 10-20% has exhibited mild seasonal affective disorder. It is not only for the high number that the topic was chosen but because it affects people of the age between 23 and 27 with few cases reported among children and adolescents (Weiner, 2013, p.101). .
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In the research article, “Psychosocial Functioning in Depressive Patients: A Comparative Study between Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Affective Disorder” by Shubham Mehta, Pankaj Kumar Mittal, and Mukesh Kumar Swami. Shubham Mehta et al.’s (2014) stated that both major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar affective disorder (BAD) causes acute impairments as it relates to a persons social life, ability to work and think clearly. According to Shubham Mehta et al.’s (2014), the world health
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