Mania

The Dutch Tulip Mania: The World’s First Speculative Bubble “Our Descendants doubtless will laugh at the human insanity of our Age, that in our times the Tulip-flowers have been so revered”. Introduction The words of Theodorus Schrevelius, a historian from Harlem writing in 1648, summarize the overriding narrative that has been perpetuated about the Dutch tulip mania: a period of economic insanity resulting in a profound crash when the price of tulip bulbs in the Netherlands plummeted in 1637. Many contemporaneous and contemporary historians have regarded the Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century as the first documented nationwide speculative bubble. Over a period of a few months during 1936 to 1937, the price of tulip bulbs rose to unprecedented levels as individuals across the country speculated on the prices of tulips in the tulip market. As 19th century British writer Charles Mackay commented,…

“The atypical antipsychotics with their proven efficacy against manic symptoms are emerging as candidates for use against the depressive phase of bipolar disorder” (Keck, 2005, p. 34). Antipsychotics are generally used for treatment of mania either alone or in a combination with mood stabilizers (Yatham, 2003). Risperidone, olanzapine and quetiapine have been examined in double blind, placebo-controlled trials for their efficacy in acute mania in monotherapy as well as in combination with mood…

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Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness that has many effects on the human body and mind. Known as manic-depressive disorder, bipolar disorder is most commonly found in young adults, and in some cases, children as well (Gallagher, 2005, 35). Statistics show that bipolar disorder affects about four million people in the United States, and is becoming one of the most common disabilities in the United States today (Craighead and Nemeroff, 2001, 212 ) . People with bipolar disorder undergo two…

In the article, “Altered Brain Activation during Emotional Face Processing in Relation to Both Diagnosis and Polygenic Risk of Bipolar Disorder,” the purpose of the study was to examine possible influences of Bipolar Disorder and polygenic risk on activation of the brain. To begin with, Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a mood disorder that alternates between depression and mania. Mania is the state of extremely excited and joyful or extremely anxious and sad. The moods are extreme. The cause of the…

one full-out manic episode in which the unusual, “high” mood is not warranted by external events, and which results in a disruption with the person’s life. People with Bipolar I may require hospital care when in the grip of their manic episodes. Bipolar II while much the same as Bipolar I, has less extreme manic episodes. A person with Bipolar II may never have experienced a full-out manic episode, but does fall into depressive episodes. In between these less-than-manic highs and the lows of…

“Margot Kidder kept up a busy schedule as an actress even though she had been experiencing the mood swings common among bipolar patients. To cope, she returned to cocaine and alcohol.” (Marcovitz 61) Turning to drugs, either prescription or non are common ways to deal with undiagnosed Bipolar Disorder. The word “bipolar” when broken apart is “bi” which means “two” and “polar” which means “opposite.” Bipolarisim, also known as Manic Depression, can be a very serious mood disorder where the person…

There is several types of bipolar disorder but all of them involve episodes of mania and depression to a certain degree. Usually, these episodes can occur if you don’t get treatment. Bipolar I disorder mean that a person affected by it has had at least one manic episode in one’s life. In bipolar I, a person experiences at least one manic episode that lasts a week and also multiple episodes of major depression. If they get no treatment, these episodes will tend to repeat themselves over time.…

Identification of bipolar disorder has been part of the medical field since the 1850s when Jean-Pierre Falret, a psychiatrist, published an article about “circular insanity”. Being the first documented diagnosis, the article talks about how a person will feel ecstatic one moment yet at another moment, they are feeling depressed. They are experiencing a serious mental illness called bipolar disorder or mania-depression, where mood swings happen at sudden periods of time. There are many various…

Compare and Contrast The spectrum of mood disorders shifted across time although the originating symptoms of melancholy and mania remained the same just with different terms. Within each Bipolar disorder is the evolution of what used to be called manic-depressive illness, which originated well over 100 years ago. For the early theorists the two extremes of mood were documents and described and attempted to understand the origin from which they originated. From the theoretical framework up…