Research on Bipolar Disorder

Forney’s suffering arises not just from the symptoms of her bipolar disorder, but from the self-isolation that results from her fear of losing her creativity. After her diagnosis, Forney characterizes herself as a “rock star” cheerfully eating an energy bar and casually tossing Klonopin into her mouth (28). With the same carelessness, she begins reading Kay Jamison’s memoir, a story by a psychologist who suffers from the same disorder as she. Here, Forney’s face shows a dismissive skepticism, betraying her adamant refusal to let her disorder “dictate everything in [her] life” (27-28). Her reasons for this refusal become readily apparent when we

How would you react if you found your wife in the shower with another man? Any sane person would furious, but would you lose control and beat the other man senseless? Bradley Cooper’s portrayal of bipolar disorder in The Silver Linings Playbook how untreated the disorder can take control of a person’s life giving them manic episodes and major depressive episodes. This film aims to accurately display the struggles any person with bipolar disorder will deal with in their daily life while trying to manage the extensive mood swings they experience. The intended purpose of this paper is to analyze not only in what ways the director and cast accurately display the everyday life of an individual with bipolar disorder, but also the quality of the film. Throughout the movie themes of divorce, medications, the need for social support when dealing with mental disorders and a person’s unwillingness to accept help, will all be brought up in order to help an individual manage their disorder.

The reading offers lessons about the diagnosis of bipolar disorder primarily. To a reader, placing emphasis on Jamison’s diagnosis can lead to answers about curing the condition, which is the goal of any interested individual. It is worth noting that Jamison was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. Such an assertion follows her own revelation that she suffered from the condition often, and in a long periodic duration while growing up (Jamison, 1995). Further, bipolar II disorder is characterized by instances

story in a memoir titled Madness: A Bipolar Life, in an attempt to shed some light and insight on the

This book was very inspirational. It is not only inspiring to people with bipolar disorder but to all other people that are suffering from any kind of mental illness. It also speaks to people that do not have a mental illness by giving them and inside look of what someone’s life is like and how they deal with their problems. The book shows how not only is life possible with mental illness but that it is also worth living.

In this experiment there were 62 participants that were diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder and 50 control participants that had no diagnosis of a lifetime mood disorder. The people that were participating were recruited from the Bay Area Community in California. Everyone was fluent English speakers and ranged between 18 and 65 years old. Neither with no history of brain injury or medical conditions of the central nervous system and no show of impaired mental status or developmental disability. Every

In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, we follow Pat Solitano Jr., a man recently released from a mental institution (Cohen et al., 2012). He is a Caucasian male, likely in his early to mid-thirties and of Italian descent. He was a high school history teacher, living with his wife, Nikki, an English teacher. Upon finding his wife in the shower with another man, he nearly beats the man to death leading him to be sent to a psychiatric facility for eight months with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. In this essay I will support the diagnosis of a Bipolar I disorder. A diagnosis of Bipolar I disorder, has specific criteria in the DSM-V that have to be met. I will be listing the criteria and through examples of Pat’s actions, thoughts and behaviours, he meets the criteria.

Bipolar disorder is typically a condition that affects people in their late teens and early adulthood. It is usually not thought to affect a child but it is something that, if present at a young age, can seriously affect the way a child grows up. Bipolar disorder affects every aspect of a person’s life and is not as understood as it should be. Researchers are still looking for the cause of this illness and how it can be treated but overall it is a condition that many people are undereducated on and that is something I’m hoping this paper might be able to change for some.

(2000) explained that the prevalence of bipolar spectrum disorder is between 2.6% and 6.5%, which can be compared to the prevalence of drug abuse which is 4.4%. Bipolar can be classified as a spectrum disorder because it forms an umbrella for bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, cyclothymia, and bipolar disorder not otherwise specified. Unfortunately, bipolar spectrum disorders often go undiagnosed and therefore untreated. With that, Hirschfelt et all (2000), emphasizes the importance of recognizing this disorder. With recognition, these individuals can seek intervention for this disorder and decrease its symptoms and its progression. One way to diagnose this disorder is to screen for it by performing a mood disorder questionnaire. The researchers created a one-page, self-report, paper-and-pencil inventory that can be easily evaluated and administered. The questions were derived from the DSM-IV criteria at the time, but have been updated to the newest version’s clinical

The writers and producers of the documentary found people diagnosed with bipolar over the three year period the audience was able to see how bipolar disorders truly effect people’s lives. The symptoms, moods, behaviors, and thoughts of the people with bipolar disorder in the film can be found in professional literature. This was expected because the documentaries showed real people, not actors, with bipolar disorder and there was no made up story line. The film explored every aspect of person with bipolar disorder well. One issue not addressed in depth in the film was the medications that people with bipolar disorder may take, the people just stated they didn’t want to take them.

The author, Kay Jamison talks about her life with bipolar I disorder in her book, An Unquiet Mind. Jamison was a Caucasian woman who at the age of forty seven wrote this memoir. Currently she is seventy years old and dealing with her disorder. She spent her life moving around a lot because her father was an air force pilot. She grew up with an older brother who was very caring and an older sister that she bumped heads with. Kay’s father was a really delightful person. His emotions were contagious. Her mother was always helpful and caring for her family no matter how busy she was. Kay’s parents were supporting in all her interests; such as pets, poetry, science, and medicine. When she was fifteen, things took a turn and her family moved to California for her father’s new job as a scientist. Her father began to show worsening signs of depression. Around the age of sixteen, Kay realized that she was having mood swings that were very drastic. In her senior year of high school, she had her first manic depressive attack. She started her undergraduate study at UCLA dealing with her constant depression and manic episodes. As she was studying as an undergraduate, Kay began to take an interest in psychology. She pursued her PhD in psychology at UCLA again studying mood disorders. As a graduate student, she also began working in the psychiatric ward and dealing with marital problems in her first marriage. She was slowly spiraling out of control until she had a terrifying

However, this is now a slightly outdated view; it has been recognized that to dismiss qualitative methodology completely is to neglect a valuable tool. To assess the contribution of both quantitative and qualitative research within clinical psychology I will focus on the issue of Bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is a crippling condition which is reported to affect around two percent of the population of the United Kingdom (Merikangas, Akiskal, Agnst, Greenberg, Hirschfield, Petukhova & Kessler, 2007). Bipolar disorder is characterised as the incessant occurrence of phases of depression, mania and affective state (Goodwin and Jamison, 2007). I aim to study how both types of research have helped contribute towards a better understanding of the condition and provided new light into areas such as diagnoses and treatment, within clinical psychology.

In this article, Rose argues against theories that have long claimed that “unsuccessful writers think in fundamentally different ways from successful writers” (325). He rejects Watkin’s theory that basic writers are field dependent learners, meaning they have difficulty abstracting information outside of their own experience; instead, Rose argues that basic writers’ responses to written assignments are a reflection of how they communicate in their own culture and environment. Rose feels that a writer’s cognitive style is not a measure of ability or how well they perform, but their manner and style performance on a task. He resists “singular, unitary cognitive explanations for poor school performance,” strongly criticizing a reductive tendency in composition to apply cognitive theories from psychology, neurology, and even literary studies to basic writing, which include narrow judgements of literate vs. oral, independent vs. dependent, concrete vs. logical, and verbal vs. spatial (325). The theory of hemisphericity suggests that each hemisphere is responsible for certain cognitive and physical functions and that we tend to rely on one half of the brain or the other. Rose expresses critiques’ concerns of this theory showing it lacks consistent proven research. Piaget’s Stages of Cognition is a theory that was tied to a 1970 study that found that half of college freshman could not

One of the biggest myths about bipolar disorder is that it is a rare amongst many people but that is not true. According to statistics and research in a given year, bipolar disorder affects about 5.7 million American adults, or about 2.6% of the U.S. population 18 and older, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (Doheny, 2005). Bipolar disorder has been around for as long as the 1800 but it was not until the 1900 that German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, help to better defined what it takes to deal with bipolar disorder. It wasn’t until the 20th century that society began to normalize abnormal behavior. The silver lining playbook is an amazing movie sheds a light on abnormal behavior and mental illnesses. Society looks at abnormal behavior as a menace. This movie helps opens the minds of many people on what it means to function with abnormal behavior. The silver lining playbook is amazing romantic comedy about two individuals who are suffering with separate abnormal behaviors. The story line is based on a man by the name of Pat who has spent time in a mental institution who leaves the facility to stay with his parents; during this time he tries to rebuild his life as a function person with bipolar disorder. During this time of trying to get his ex-wife back where he was almost successful but things eventually get complicated when he means a woman by the name of Tiffany who also has some abnormal behavior behaviors but she has more control over it try to help