Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression is a brain disorder characterized by dramatic mood swings of depression and mania, which are often very abrupt. In studies conducted regarding mental health, bipolar disorder affects males and females equally. This disorder normally affects people in their late teens and early adolescent years and continues throughout their [...]
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A Bipolar Case Study Can Help Discover Causes and Treatments
Bipolar disorder is an irregular, abrupt, extreme change in moods from the agony or euphoria of a manic, intense, emotional high to a debilitating, devastating bipolar depression, which can occur separately, sporadically or simultaneously. By conducting a bipolar case study on patients, they are working on finding new effective treatments that can deal with these [...]
Keats, Beethoven, And Jean-Claude Van Damme: Portraits Of A Bipolar Manic Depressive
There’s long been a link between greatness and madness in the mind of the public. Particularly after the early 1800′s and the rise of Romanticism in Europe, common wisdom held there to be a connection between genius, particularly creative genius, and mental illness. If you’ve ever talked to someone suffering from severe schizophrenia, you might [...]
Bipolar: Anger is a Common Symptom
Bipolar: Anger is a Common Symptom According to Dr. Charles Spielberger in a publication of the American Psychological Association, anger is “an emotional state that varies in intensity from mild irritation to intense fury”. Everyone experiences some form of anger throughout their lives, but for those diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the anger which occurs as [...]
