Psychology 1010

In this report I will be talking to you about a type of mood disorder known as bipolar mania. Sometimes given the circumstance’s the bipolar disorder can elevate from basic to excessive or extreme and hostile level, like bipolar type 2. Bipolar mania type 2 occurs when a person’s mood fluctuates between depression and anger irritability. As you read on I will explain and document symptoms of this disorder. I will diagnose Adam Saddlers character Happy Gilmore, as well as how it affected his everyday life.
Examples of symptoms: * Happy loved hockey * After his father’s death happy developed a short fuse. Wouldn’t take much to set him off. At the beginning of the movie he was playing hockey for team try outs. * First sign of anger irritability was when he beat up the opposing player for touching his hockey puck. Then hit the puck so hard it shattered the glass. * Following that he got anger because he didn’t get called for the team. The coach made a smug comment so in retaliation he beat the coach up and hit everyone that intervened. * The first sign of depression was when is Girlfriend left him because he was going nowhere with his life. He did not make the team so he felt it was hopeless. As a result he started making kissing sound to the speaker. * The second time he got anger was when the repo man told him that they were going to take his grandmother’s house and belongs because she did not pay taxes. He told the repo man that he didn’t hate him and right after that threw him through a glass door. As the movie progressed on happy experienced another episode of depression. * The second time he got depressed was because he didn’t want his grandma to lose the very house his grandfather built by hand. To help get money to retrieve the house he entered the golf tour. * This time when he got anger he pushed the caddie for doing his job, which was to carry the golfers clubs. * Next his opponent was talking bad about his