Mental Disorders Research Paper
Mental Disorders
Millions and millions of people have been, and are, plagued by some type of mental disorder. There are many types of disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance-related disorders. The mental disorders can range from minor cases to very strong, extreme cases. Two mental disorders that deal with the shifting of a human's personality and character are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is characterized by the persistent defects in the perception of one's reality, but the disorder mainly affects cognition. Schizophrenia translates from Greek to mean, roughly, shattered mind. Popular culture confuses schizophrenia with dissociative identity …show more content…
disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder/ split personality), when in all actuality; they are not the same things. This mental disorder tends to begin in a person in their late teenage years or early adulthood and normally in withdrawn, seclusive individuals. Women usually will show signs of schizophrenia later than males. The symptoms are things like disturbances of perception, disturbances of thought, and most frequently appearing as visual or aural hallucinations.
Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness and is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function.
Bipolar disorder is different from the normal ups and downs of life that every person goes through because the symptoms of bipolar disorder are much more severe than a moment of distress. The symptoms of someone who is bipolar can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even in extreme cases suicide. Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, some of the people that possess it have their first symptoms during childhood, and then some develop them late in life. Bipolar disorder is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. It is like diabetes or heart disease in the sense that it is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person's …show more content…
life.
Psychologists have done much research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Some scientists believe they have accounts that date back as back as 2000 B.C. that relate to symptoms of schizophrenia. The concept of "madness" had been around for thousands of years, but psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first to make a distinction between schizophrenia and manic depression in 1887. Eugene Bleuler officially developed the term "schizophrenia" to refer to the lack of interaction between thought processes and perception and he was also the first to describe the symptoms as "positive" or "negative." In the second century A.D. Aretaeus of Cappadocia first recognized some symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and felt they could be linked to each other, but his findings went unnoticed until 1650, when a scientist named Richard Burton wrote a book, The Anatomy of Melancholia, which focused specifically on depression. Later, in 1913, Emil Krapelin established the term manic-depressive, with an exhaustive study surrounding the effects of depression and a small portion about the manic state. Within a span of fifteen years, his approach to mental illness was fully accepted and became a widely discussed topic of the early 1930's. During the 1980's research was able to distinguish between adult and childhood bipolar disorder, but today more studies are still needed to find the possible methods to treat the illness.
Schizophrenia affects approximately one percent of the world's population, with 1.5 to 2 million people in the United States alone. Even though it occurs at the same time ages in life for people all around the world, studies have shown that the amount of people who develop schizophrenia varies greatly from country to country. The disorder is also a major cause of disability, and recently in a fourteen-country study it was ranked as the third most disabling condition after quadriplegia and dementia and before paraplegia and blindness. More than two million American adults, or about one percent of the population of the United States age eighteen and older in any given year, have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder affects both sexes equally in all age groups and its worldwide prevalence is approximately three to five percent. It can even be apparent in preschoolers. There are no significant differences among racial groups in the prevalence of bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia has signs, but the symptoms are not identical for everyone.
Some people may have only one episode of schizophrenia throughout their lifetime, while others may have recurring episodes, but lead relatively normal lives in between. Others may have severe episodes through their whole lifetime. Schizophrenia has symptoms known and positive and negative. Positive symptoms are when the person sees things that are not there, such as hallucinations. Negative symptoms are when they are missing things that are actually there, or if they lose motivation for doing things in life or fail to take care of themselves
properly.
The first line treatment for schizophrenia is usually the use of antipsychotic medication. The newer atypical antipsychotic medications are preferred over older typical antipsychotic medications due to their favorable side-effect profile. There are certain drugs one can take to try and cope with schizophrenia, but if there are repeated episodes, then they may need to go to the hospital. Most people with bipolar disorder, severe cases or not, can achieve substantial stabilization of their mood swings and related symptoms with proper treatment. Medications for bipolar disorder are prescribed by psychiatrists, and the medications known as "mood stabilizers" usually are prescribed to help control bipolar disorder. One example of a mood stabilizer is lithium, and it is often very effective in controlling mania and preventing the recurrence of both manic and depressive episodes.
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two disorders that pull on a person's personality and moods. Bipolar disorder is something that seems to be much more easily treated than schizophrenia, but still, a person with schizophrenia has the potential to lead a normal life. These two disorders are serious and should not be over looked by the view of the public and made fun of because people really do suffer from these disorders.
Millions and millions of people have been, and are, plagued by some type of mental disorder. There are many types of disorders such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance-related disorders. The mental disorders can range from minor cases to very strong, extreme cases. Two mental disorders that deal with the shifting of a human's personality and character are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is characterized by the persistent defects in the perception of one's reality, but the disorder mainly affects cognition. Schizophrenia translates from Greek to mean, roughly, shattered mind. Popular culture confuses schizophrenia with dissociative identity …show more content…
disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder/ split personality), when in all actuality; they are not the same things. This mental disorder tends to begin in a person in their late teenage years or early adulthood and normally in withdrawn, seclusive individuals. Women usually will show signs of schizophrenia later than males. The symptoms are things like disturbances of perception, disturbances of thought, and most frequently appearing as visual or aural hallucinations.
Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness and is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function.
Bipolar disorder is different from the normal ups and downs of life that every person goes through because the symptoms of bipolar disorder are much more severe than a moment of distress. The symptoms of someone who is bipolar can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even in extreme cases suicide. Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, some of the people that possess it have their first symptoms during childhood, and then some develop them late in life. Bipolar disorder is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. It is like diabetes or heart disease in the sense that it is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person's …show more content…
life.
Psychologists have done much research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Some scientists believe they have accounts that date back as back as 2000 B.C. that relate to symptoms of schizophrenia. The concept of "madness" had been around for thousands of years, but psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first to make a distinction between schizophrenia and manic depression in 1887. Eugene Bleuler officially developed the term "schizophrenia" to refer to the lack of interaction between thought processes and perception and he was also the first to describe the symptoms as "positive" or "negative." In the second century A.D. Aretaeus of Cappadocia first recognized some symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and felt they could be linked to each other, but his findings went unnoticed until 1650, when a scientist named Richard Burton wrote a book, The Anatomy of Melancholia, which focused specifically on depression. Later, in 1913, Emil Krapelin established the term manic-depressive, with an exhaustive study surrounding the effects of depression and a small portion about the manic state. Within a span of fifteen years, his approach to mental illness was fully accepted and became a widely discussed topic of the early 1930's. During the 1980's research was able to distinguish between adult and childhood bipolar disorder, but today more studies are still needed to find the possible methods to treat the illness.
Schizophrenia affects approximately one percent of the world's population, with 1.5 to 2 million people in the United States alone. Even though it occurs at the same time ages in life for people all around the world, studies have shown that the amount of people who develop schizophrenia varies greatly from country to country. The disorder is also a major cause of disability, and recently in a fourteen-country study it was ranked as the third most disabling condition after quadriplegia and dementia and before paraplegia and blindness. More than two million American adults, or about one percent of the population of the United States age eighteen and older in any given year, have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder affects both sexes equally in all age groups and its worldwide prevalence is approximately three to five percent. It can even be apparent in preschoolers. There are no significant differences among racial groups in the prevalence of bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia has signs, but the symptoms are not identical for everyone.
Some people may have only one episode of schizophrenia throughout their lifetime, while others may have recurring episodes, but lead relatively normal lives in between. Others may have severe episodes through their whole lifetime. Schizophrenia has symptoms known and positive and negative. Positive symptoms are when the person sees things that are not there, such as hallucinations. Negative symptoms are when they are missing things that are actually there, or if they lose motivation for doing things in life or fail to take care of themselves
properly.
The first line treatment for schizophrenia is usually the use of antipsychotic medication. The newer atypical antipsychotic medications are preferred over older typical antipsychotic medications due to their favorable side-effect profile. There are certain drugs one can take to try and cope with schizophrenia, but if there are repeated episodes, then they may need to go to the hospital. Most people with bipolar disorder, severe cases or not, can achieve substantial stabilization of their mood swings and related symptoms with proper treatment. Medications for bipolar disorder are prescribed by psychiatrists, and the medications known as "mood stabilizers" usually are prescribed to help control bipolar disorder. One example of a mood stabilizer is lithium, and it is often very effective in controlling mania and preventing the recurrence of both manic and depressive episodes.
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are two disorders that pull on a person's personality and moods. Bipolar disorder is something that seems to be much more easily treated than schizophrenia, but still, a person with schizophrenia has the potential to lead a normal life. These two disorders are serious and should not be over looked by the view of the public and made fun of because people really do suffer from these disorders.