“1 in 5 adults experience a mental health condition every year. 1 in 20 lives with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder” (“Mental Health Conditions”‚ n.d.). Mental Health affects the individual in a massive way‚ it could cause irrational thoughts‚ mood swings‚ and unusual eating habits. It could affect the way the person thinks. When these start to happen‚ it could interfere with the way people live their everyday lives. Mental health has such a broad spectrum. So broad
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A Treatment Plan: On Mood Stabilizers and the Inhibition of Creativity There is significant evidence that highly creative people are at greater risk for mood disorders‚ especially bipolar disorder‚ than other people. It has also been reported that many creative people feel that mood stabilizers inhibit creativity. While symptom management is important‚ recovery is not centered on eliminating symptoms completely‚ but rather making them more manageable. The ultimate goal is to increase the quality
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Specific definition: Depression Depression is a state of sadness‚ a low place on a surface or an extended period of economic recession.An illness that involves the body‚ mood‚ and thoughts and that affects the way a person eats‚ sleeps‚ feels about himself or herself‚ and thinks about things. Depression is closely associated with a lack of confidence and self-esteem and with an inability to express strong feelings. Repressed anger is thought to be a powerful contributor to depression. The person
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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
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Patient is a young female‚ between 20-30 years of age‚ with history of schizoaffective disorder who has been hospitalized for about 3 months in an acute facility for acute mania with psychosis and disorganized/combative behavior. At first‚ patient refused to take medication‚ so a hearing was held and was deemed with an involuntary treatment commitment. Initial medications were found to be ineffective‚ which called for further treatment. Over the past few months‚ medication regimens were balanced
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Depression’s symptoms‚ they are still important. Dysthymics will usually undergo a Major Depression episode sometime during their dysthymic period. Bipolar Depression‚ also known as‚ Manic Depression‚ is another type of Depression. This type has very different symptoms than that of Major Depression or Dysthymia. The symptoms of Bipolar Disorder are having both very high and very low mood swings. When one has Manic Depression one day they could be extremely happy and the next in a very severe depressive
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people do than don’t‚ wouldn’t it make more sense to say the majority is normal? I think it really depends on what someone’s definition of normal is‚ but in my opinion‚ no‚ nobody is really “normal. Mental health is a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being. Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood‚ thinking and behavior. Mental health overall how someone is doing whereas a mental illness would in a
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BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE Module I: Stress Meaning & Nature Characteristics Types of stress Meaning Stress may be defined as "a state of psychological and / or physiological imbalance resulting from the disparity between situational demand and the individual’s ability and / or motivation to meet those demands." Dr. Hans Selye‚ one of the leading authorities on the concept of stress‚ described stress as "the rate of all wear and tear caused by life." Stress can be positive or negative. Stress
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