HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bipolar Disorder, Psychomotor Agitation, Mania
18 Oct 2016
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Bipolar disorder has a symptom of manic (powerful) Mood pervasive and sustained (longer in duration) Mood as a halo effect (doesn"t have a cause: mood surrounds an entire person; shapes the way we see the world; much more potent than emotion. Episodes discrete periods in which behaviour and feeling dominated by mania or depression (describes a period of time where person is dominated with mood) Normal to sleep w/ more than 10 men in one week: excessive involvement in pleasurable activities w/ high potential for painful consequences, crash. Hypomania super-functional semi-mania (bipolar ll) (less intense level) (people would say that they don"t want treatment) From 1996-2004, 56% spike in bd diagnoses. Over last decades, increase from 1% of general pop. to 4% Fetish for mentally ill art. : not everyone w/ bipolar disorder achieves great things . Compare treatment of people with schizophrenia vs bipolar disorder vs cancer. A unique social experience: the label schizophrenic" inherently damaging.
