Bipolar Disorder Symptoms And Treatment - 2115 Words

Corey Brooks PSY 113-01 Dr. Shamberg 29 April 2016 Bipolar Disorder The Bipolar disorder or you can call it manic depression, it is a often diagnosed and draining frame or state of mind disorder which causes huge shifts in temperament and frame of mind. The word bipolar means that the two main polar extremes in which a person with the disorder experiences. According a part of the National Institutes of Health that watches over neurological and psychological research this disorder affects about 2.1 million adults in the U. S. and about 1 percent of the entire world. The first stages or signs of this disorder usually first appear in childhood and early adulthood, with cases†¦show more content†¦These people will be noticeably way more socially and physically active than usual, get way less sleep than normal, engage in many activities at one time, and be very sloppy while doing those activities. One of the wildest symptoms is the over involvement in risk taking activities known as hyper-sexuality. If an episode gets worse peopl e may begin to experience some symptoms that are just like some symptoms of schizophrenia. Including hallucinations, delusions, and severely wild thinking and reasoning patterns. This sometimes leads to the misdiagnosis of people with bipolar disorder as people with schizophrenia, sometimes episodes can even lead to unprovoked violence towards anything like objets and people they may or may not even know. During those manic episodes people usually wont even reconize exactly what they are doing at that time during an episode and wont really have any control over their own thoughts and actions. A hypomanic episode is just like a manic episode only a little less severe. The symptoms of a hypomanic episode include pretty much most of the same symptoms as a manic episode does, with a decreased need for sleep, fast racing thoughts and the occasional anger trips. However, those hypomanic episodes aren’t usually perceptible to others and do not lessen someones social, work, or famil y life in any really big ways. The people that are going through a hypomanic episode are usually upbeat and