Taneah: The Cause Of Bipolar Disorder

In the play Medea by Euripides, Medea does many things that would be considered crazy. She seems to overreact in nearly every situation and is even willing to kill her own children in order to inflict pain upon her ex-husband, Jason. When reading the play, Medea can appear to be a complete lunatic, however, many of her actions could be explained by bipolar disorder. Medea displays many symptoms that are associated with bipolar disorder, including: suicidal thoughts, risky behavior, anxiety, and depression. Bipolar disorder is a complicated illness that comes with a variety of symptoms and every case varies. Bipolar disorder can be developed or be triggered by a period of high stress (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2017, para. 22). When Medea’s husband

“All right, she [tells] herself. So I’ve killed him”(Dahl 2). She does not care about the death penalty for herself, but worries what they will do to her unborn child. She immediately plans her next move, putting the leg in the oven and making herself look as normal as possible, going to the store to give herself a cover story. She does not care about anything on the way to or from the store, but when she returns home, the reality of her husbands death sets in and she returns to loving

I spent the next few days looking for these answers, searching the deepest corners of my brain for information I knew I would not find. I would never know why she did it to herself, but I longed for understanding. While she was getting treatment in the hospital, she used her one allotted phone call to call me, not her parents. Again, with fear and anxiety, I put the phone to my ear.

According to Lindamer et al. (2012), individuals with schizophrenia had 3 times the odds of being categorized as a high utilizer. Bipolar disorder and other psychotic disorders increased the odds of being a high utilizer by 90% (Lindamer et al., 2012). Being White, younger, female, homeless, and having Medicaid insurance also increased the odds for being a high utilizer in this sample. Similarly, Pasic et al. (2005) noted that high utilizers were more likely to be homeless, have developmental delays, have a history of voluntary and involuntary hospitalizations, have personality disorders, unreliable social support and a history of incarceration and detoxification.

Bipolar disorder is an often devastating mental illnesses, with high emotional, social and economic impact on the lives of patients and family members [Jin and McCrone, 2015; Miller et al., 2014]. In recent decades, there has been significant progress in developing diagnostic methods for reliably diagnosing severe bipolar disorder (bipolar disorder type I) and some related bipolar “spectrum” disorders (bipolar type II disorder), and there has also been recent progress in identifying some of the genetic loci (through linkage and association analyses) which contribute to severe bipolar disorder. Controversy remains, however, about the diagnostic borders of bipolar disorder, particularly in relation to schizophrenia and schizoaffective

The lack of trust led to a lot of secrecy. She ends up stashing pills and hopes of overdosing and not trusting her mom enough to let her know how much pain she was feeling. Suffering from physical pain is tough as it is, but suffering from mental pain is worse. With hopes of looking for a relationship with her father she found out the unfortunate, her father wanting nothing to do with her. Not being wanted is the worst feeling in the world, especially by your own blood.

She grieves for her husband a very short time. She then begins to feel a sense of freedom. This initially makes her feel guilty and

Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness, which involves hypomanic episodes, which are changes in someone’s usual mood. Originally, Bipolar Disorder was called manic depression because it does share similar symptoms with people diagnosed with depression. Bipolar Disorder is a severe condition because it can cause mania, which then causes hallucinations and paranoid rage. (Bipolar Disorder) Bipolar Disorder is classified into two categories, bipolar type 1 and bipolar type 2. Bipolar type 2 is more serious because there is more major depression episodes. (Bipolar Disorder) A study done by Revista Brasileria de Psiquitra, shows a higher prevalence of Bipolar Disorder type 1 but overall both are pretty low in the general population. (Clemente)

She finds herself standing by the open window of her kitchen. The city’s nightlife booming beneath her. The cold wraps itself around her like an old friend. Now, she finally realizes the cause of his death. It was her all along. Her blamed herself because it was her. Drip, drip, drip. It echoes around her, filling the last of her senses as she leans out the window.

I still was upset, but I wasn’t outraged like I had been. She got out of the car and trotted her way over to where I was sitting. We sat in silence for a good ten minutes. Then i asked as calmly as I could, why did you do it. She didn't reply. I asked again. And she still didn't reply. That's when i got really mad. I grabbed her by her arms and was shaking her and yelling. I couldn't control myself. I threw her to the ground and went to grab my knife out of my truck. I couldn't stop myself, even if i tried. I went back and she was sitting there crying, bawling her eyes out. I grabbed her by her hair and shaved her face into the concrete. I started stabbing her repeatedly over and over again. I couldn't stop. I had blood all over me. I remember her crying and trying to yell for help, but you could barely hear anything from her. When i finally stopped, she was dead. I couldn't believe what i had done. I don't feel any remorse from it at all. I miss her, but she had it coming. I threw her body into the river. I couldn't clean the blood off my clothes, so i just changed into something i had in the truck and

This story complicates the idea of how a woman feels about her career and the man she loves versus how she should feel from the people of her

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