With the variety of different disorders, the individual would develop through the course of their lifetime. The disorders have a specific symptom, different methods for intervention, and different options that are available to treat the disorder to help the individual through it. Psychopathology is developed throughout the years of research to incorporate the information and knowledge of the work for different disorders, how disorders cause the individual to behave, and what symptoms may show that will lead to diagnosis the disorder. Bipolar disorder is a development that impacts the individual 's development in the individual life. Bipolar affects the person mood by making it difficult to regulate between being depressed, happy, sad, and even to regulate normal. This paper will evaluate the three peer-reviewed research studies, discuss the intervention or treatment shown to be effective, conceptualizing the disorder using biopsychosocial model. Bipolar Disorder
According to National Institute of Mental Health (n.d), bipolar disorders classified the mood disorder that affects the individual regarding the age, gender, or even the race and characterized the episodes with depression and mania. The disorder affects the person neurologically and the impact of their life affecting the Individual daily activities. The individual suffering from bipolar disorder has drastic mood swings from severe depression to happiness within the space as of minutes. The swings happen suddenly, and the individual spend hours a day till the next mood, being happy for the long time or being depressed they tend to not eat or stay in the bed all day. There are different types of bipolar disorder including 1 and 2, rapid cycling, mixed bipolar disorders (National Institute of Mental Health,
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Bipolar disorders according to
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