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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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    Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder also known as manic depression. It is described as a category of mood disorders. Mood disorders are defined by the presence of one or more episodes known as mania and hypomania. Bipolar disorder affects about five million Americans‚ about 3 out of every 100 adults. This disorder had been found equally in men and women. The signs and symptoms of major depressive episode are feelings of sadness‚ anxiety‚ guilt‚ anger‚ isolation

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    Copyright ª Blackwell Munksgaard 2005 Bipolar Disorders 2005: 7(Suppl. 3): 5–69 BIPOLAR DISORDERS Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies Yatham LN‚ Kennedy SH‚ O’Donovan C‚ Parikh S‚ MacQueen G‚ McIntyre R‚ Sharma V‚ Silverstone P‚ Alda M‚ Baruch P‚ Beaulieu S‚ Daigneault A‚ Milev R‚ Young T‚ Ravindran A‚ Schaffer A‚ Connolly M‚ Gorman CP. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments

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    Introduction Bipolar disorder is a disorder associated with episodes of mood swings going from depressive lows to manic highs. There is a controversy with bipolar disorder in youth causing difficulty in diagnosing. However‚ bipolar disorder is considered to be a repetitive familial disorder that occurs in 1-3% of youth‚ but mainly in adolescents prevalence “ The prevalence of the Bp spectrum disorders in youth is on average 1.8% and for Bp-1 1.2% with rates of BP-1 being consistent amoung most

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    Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder Depression because they share the symptoms of sadness‚ hopelessness‚ pessimism; anxiety and sleep problems; However Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Depression take very different directions. It is important that we are able to tell them apart because the treatments are very different. Making an inaccurate diagnosis can result in making the disorder worse. There are two types of mood disorders: Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder. It is believed

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    The Psychopathology and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder The concept of a drastic shift in mood being classified as an illness was first described by the French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Farlet in 1851 (Marmol‚ 2008). Farlet coined the term “Folie Circulaire” to label a disorder characterized by manic and sad episodes separated by symptom-free intervals (Marmol‚ 2008). As time passed‚ the description along with the classification changed‚ altering from an entity on its own to a unified disorder with

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    Bipolar Disorder: A Case of Bad Genes? December 13‚ 2011 Abstract Bipolar disorder‚ formerly known as manic depression‚ is a mood disorder in which a person experiences alternating episodes of both depression and mania. Bipolar disorder affects 1 in 100 people in the world. Throughout history‚ scientists and physicians have tried to find the exact cause of the disorder‚ but only in the last 30 years been able to confirm genetics as a culprit. Advances in research have enabled scientists

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    I. Bipolar Disorder A. Definition B. History 1. Origin C. Society and culture 1. Prejudice 2. Social Stigma II. Signs and Symptoms A. Episodes 1. Maniac Episode 2. Depressive Episode 3. Hypomaniac episode 4. Mixed Affective Episode III. Diagnosis A. Subtypes 1Bipolar I & II 2. Cyclothymic disorder B. Treatment 1. Medications 2. Therapy Bipolar disorder which is also known as the maniac depressive disorder‚ it is a brain condition

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    BIPOLAR DISORDER CASE 10 ANS no 1 Patients with bipolar disorder may be noncompliant with drug therapy for a number of reasons‚ including denial or failure to believe that they have an emotional disorder ‚reluctance to give up the pleasurable experience of mania‚ and drug side effects. Ego plays a large role - there is a tremendous amount of hubris and grandiosity among bipolars in the early phases of recovery - such an ego recoils at the affront of being told

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    The Effects of Bipolar Disorder on an Individual The Effects of Bipolar Disease on an Individual How does an individual with Bipolar disorder lead a normal and productive life? Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by cycles of depression and euphoria or mania‚ the symptoms of both the depressive and manic phases can be devastating for the individual who suffers Bipolar disorder. An overview of the disease itself can give a better understanding of its process

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