Criterion B Jones Case Study
Criterion A: Jones complains that her life feels like it is in a state of constant flux. “Some days she feels like I’m on top of the world. During hypomanic symptoms feels she can deigns new dish next day with depressive mood she feels depress and cannot get out of bed.
Criterion B: Jones alternation in mood has been going on for several years has been present for more than half the time, and she has not been without the alterations in mood for more than two months at a time. Even though she finishes her work but she finds it’s difficult everything seems to be problem for her.
Criterion C: Jones does not have major depressive symptom because she not experiencing any weight loss or gain symptoms that last for 2 weeks. Her symptoms of mood alternation have been present for more than a half and years. This also not a manic episode because it last at least one week and usually people are hospitalized. Manic episode shares an psychotic features, but in Jones’s case she is not hospitalized, her symptoms is lasting more than one week and she does have any psychotic disorders. …show more content…
Rather her symptoms appear to result from alternating mood elevation and depression levels.
Criterion E: There is no indication that her symptoms were caused by substance or a medical condition because she never have another medical condition for example, hyperthyroidism or take of drugs.
Criterion F: The depressive and hypomanic symptoms cause her significant distress and impairment in social functioning. Her depressive mood tended to affect social relationship with staff. Sometimes she feels she in the top of world another day she is sad. This mood disorder last few days and pass, her friends wondered how she going to act very next day because her mood changes from one extreme to
Criterion B: Jones alternation in mood has been going on for several years has been present for more than half the time, and she has not been without the alterations in mood for more than two months at a time. Even though she finishes her work but she finds it’s difficult everything seems to be problem for her.
Criterion C: Jones does not have major depressive symptom because she not experiencing any weight loss or gain symptoms that last for 2 weeks. Her symptoms of mood alternation have been present for more than a half and years. This also not a manic episode because it last at least one week and usually people are hospitalized. Manic episode shares an psychotic features, but in Jones’s case she is not hospitalized, her symptoms is lasting more than one week and she does have any psychotic disorders. …show more content…
Rather her symptoms appear to result from alternating mood elevation and depression levels.
Criterion E: There is no indication that her symptoms were caused by substance or a medical condition because she never have another medical condition for example, hyperthyroidism or take of drugs.
Criterion F: The depressive and hypomanic symptoms cause her significant distress and impairment in social functioning. Her depressive mood tended to affect social relationship with staff. Sometimes she feels she in the top of world another day she is sad. This mood disorder last few days and pass, her friends wondered how she going to act very next day because her mood changes from one extreme to