Kierrah Thomas Mr. Hamilton English 1020 17 September 2014 Schizophrenia vs. Bipolar Disorder: How to Cope With Diagnosed Family Member What is a psychiatric disorder? When you ask many people what a psychiatric disorder is‚ the first thing they associate it with is mental hospitals‚ psychopaths‚ and crazy‚ dysfunctional people. But in all honesty‚ the only people who understand what psychiatric patients are dealing with are doctors‚ psychologist‚ and the family members that have to interact
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Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is a neurobiological disorder that causes changes in a person’s mood‚ attitude‚ and energy. It also affects a person’s physical‚ mental and emotional ability. This disorder is manifested by severe mood swings; mania and depression. It can gradually go from hypo or mild mania to severe depression. In early stage mood swings jump from euphoria to despair (to the point of suicide). Bipolar clients usually lose interest in all the activities
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Bipolar disorders fall into two categories‚ Bipolar I Disorder and Bipolar II Disorder. According to the DSM-5 (2013)‚ “for a diagnosis of Bipolar I Disorder‚ it is necessary to meet the following criteria for a manic episode. The manic episode may have been preceded by and may be followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes” (p. 123). While a diagnosis for Bipolar II Disorder needs to meet the criteria for a current or past hypomanic episode and criteria for a current or past major depressive
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Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme changes in mood‚ energy and ability to function. Mood swings caused by bipolar disorder are different from the normal decay. They can hurt relationships and cause poor job performance in school‚ and often associated with psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations‚ delusions or thought disorders.The two extremes of the illness are mania (when the energy reaches its peak to become elation or irritability) and depression (when the lethargy and mood is grayed)
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Lithium Carbonate and Bipolar Disorder Lithium is a naturally occurring element that is refined to treat certain psychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder. Lithium is a naturally formed element‚ and can be found in many foods. The element has various forms such as lithium carbonate‚ lithium orotate‚ and lithium aspartate (“The Science and Practice”). The differences in lithium lie within the effects of salt on molecular weight‚ and the percentage of lithium. Lithium carbonate specifically is used
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diagnosing of bipolar disorder in teenagers. The number of adolescence being diagnosed with bipolar has increased at an astonishing rate of 40-fold in the past decade (Dr. Mark Zimmerman‚ Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior). While there is validity in a small percentage‚ there is an alarming amount of misdiagnosis. As a high-paced tech savvy society‚ we want answers and quick fixes now. There is a long involved and in-depth strategic process to properly diagnose bipolar disorder
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Straddling the Will of a Bipolar God In his novel‚ Moby-Dick‚ Herman Melville uses one man’s journey on a whaling vessel to symbolize the epic of the experience of the individual. In this epic‚ there is a double task for each of us‚ first to discover our own meaning‚ and finally to put that meaning against the backdrop of a universe that may not regard it one way or the other. Is there an elemental truth‚ justice‚ or fate‚ or do these only exist in the minds of mortals? Subjectivity An important
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BASIC ELECTRONICS MODULE 3 Bipolar Junction Transistor Prepared by H V Balachandra Achar Senior Lecturer‚ Dept. of E&C Engg.‚ M I T‚ Manipal Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering‚ Manipal Institute of Technology‚ Manipal‚ INDIA Syllabus • • • • • • • • Introduction to Bipolar Junction Transistor BJT Operation BJT Configurations Tutorials BJT Biasing Tutorials BJT Amplifier Tutorials Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering‚
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Fung 1 Jennifer Fung Professor Shal 1211 Section 18 October 13th‚ 2013 The “Promethic” Illness Circling a yellow wallpapered room‚ sticking your head in the oven‚ running wildly around town in the nude; these are the visions we associate with when the word madness comes to mind. Entering the taboo world of mental illness‚ stigmatized as the crazy and psychotic by decades of misunderstanding‚ Marya Hornbacher takes a step towards reversing those damages by telling her own story in a memoir
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Distinguishing Bipolar and BPD Disorders Tonjanika Boyd North Carolina Central University Introduction Bipolar and Borderline Personality Disorder are mood and personality disorder respectively‚ that have had many challenges amongst psychiatrist in differentiation. Not only does the two disorders share several symptoms and associated impairments‚ there is also continuing debates in the psychiatric literature about whether the two disorders
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