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Bipolar disorder affects many people today as well as in the time of Edgar Allen Poe when it was then called melancholia. Poe was diagnosed with this disorder and it plays an integral role in his story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839). This story is heavily influenced by this disorder or its presently associated symptoms and also describes one way that bipolar disorder can genetically affect an entire family. To fully understand a story involving this disorder, it is cardinal to know the

and see the potential suffering that could be occurring. While reading Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, it became clear how frightful it is to travel through life with Bipolar disorder. Kay began as a child growing up within a household of mental illness without knowledge until she was much older. Yet at the age of fifteen she did know that her sister had an “enormous artistic imagination and soul” (Jamison 15). This included having raging anger at different times co-occurring with her father's

The novel An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison is a hauntingly beautiful work, in addition to being a fascinating look into an illness that is still far from being truly understood. Her accounts of the manic and depressive periods that she went through shed light on the disorder that was still in its early stages of true discovery. In relation to the theories on bipolar disorder discussed in lecture, I was most intrigued by Jamison’s take on its genetics and the research being put into discovering

Demographics 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

An Unquiet mind was a fascinating book about the life of Kay Redfield Jamison and her battle with manic-depressive disorder, otherwise known as bipolar disorder. This memoir gave an intelligent perspective of the emotional battle people face when dealing with bipolar disorder, as well as an understanding on the reality and nature of this illness. This book follows very closely to the research based on bipolar disorder, which gave a good informational perspective as well as emotional insight. Through

Creativity and Irrational Forces: Eccentric Artists and Mad Scientists "Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" - Edgar Allen Poe "Imagination is more

Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder Tom Kowallek Discovering Psychology / Psy 1012-78 (1678) Marcella A. Kerlin Ph.D., MSW Abstract Bipolar Disorder is a brain disorder and can be defined as – a disorder involving periods of incapacitating depression alternating with periods of extreme euphoria and excitement; formerly called “manic depression” (Hockenbury, 2001). This disorder complicates an individual’s emotions. Bipolar Disorder causes an extreme shift in emotions

ith the technological advances in the field of neuroscience many neurologists concluded that there is an encephalon connection with the ancient myth of the “tortured genius.” Tortured genius is when someone with extraordinary talents that allow them to feel “torture” because the unbearable pain of being “perfect” to the eyes of their families and friends. Yet even with the myth being debunked neurologists have long last found a connection that might help these geniuses. Before I begin I would like

The younger the youths, the more damaging it could be for them to use the marijuana drug. This essay will provide five facts from the videos Messing with Heads, Marijuana and Mental Illness,Understanding Mental Illness and Schizophrenia,Kay Redfield Jamison-Surviving Bipolar Disorder ,Obsessions-Who's Normal Anyway and PTSD: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that will help my teenage client understand the risks of smoking marijuana, the connection between marijuana and psychotic disorders and the

Edgar Allan Poe was the epitome of a tormented genius. He possessed uncontrollable and self-inflicted internal problems. In addition, Poe was plagued by external difficulties—some preventable, some not. Most doctors today would pronounce Poe to be bipolar, chronically depressed, and perhaps even OCD. Most people today, and any day, would declare Poe to be self-obsessed and arrogant, or—at the least—snobbish. His personal life would also be considered less than ideal, though how much he was personally