Mania

Without mania, it would be Depressive Disorder (DSM-V, American Psychiatric Association, 2013). At various points during the movie, Pat appears excessively positive and possibly manic. According to Freud, “patients were better able to verbalize psychodynamically…

Mrs. Harrington is a 37-year-old Middle Eastern female whose primary language is Arabic, but she is also fluent in English. Her husband who states, “My wife is experiencing another manic episode, and is ‘out of control’, brought her to the facility today. He states that, “just this morning we were discussing how she has blown through the budget for a charity event.” “I told her that she could not spend any more money.” “She went into a rage saying that she was leaving me!” “Twenty-five minutes…

It is seen that discriminatory and stigmatizing behaviors’ could have an impact on people’s lives, therefore, it is important to map out the process and develop the social context in understanding of how behaviors’ are experienced. To address this further, Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009 challenge researchers to discover the way that stigmatizing behaviors’ impact individual lives by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods (Kleinman and Hall-Clifford, 2009). The study shows that the…

There was an implication that the most significant finding of this study was the lack of the psychiatric nurse present in the parents lives. The nurses can provide the much needed help for the parents and the child with things such as family counseling and certain task for caring for the child and the parents themselves. There is an emotional link between the parents mental and physical health, and the child’s growth and health. The nurses can be helpful in the increase the knowledge and…

Farewell to Arms, Pat is so disturbed with the ending of the novel that he throws the book out of the window smashing it to pieces. Afterwards he wakes up his parents at 4am and rants about how the book was so disturbing. Another important symptom of mania evident in the film is flight of ideas and racing thoughts. In one instance, when Pat sees the vice principal of the school he previously worked at, he is obsessed with finding out information about his ex-wife Nikki. However, once the vice…

Case History: Kevin was just your ordinary kid, the youngest of many children in the McCallister family. He was, as the movie portrayed him, the least popular member of the family, being bullied by his older brother Buzz and often ignored by his parents and cousins. This neglect reaches its peak when Kevin is left at home alone, the kid is eight remember, while the rest of his family rushes to the airport to board a flight to Paris after the power goes out and they oversleep. In fact, his…

Introduction. The journal started off by using many statistical sources –“Bipolar I disorder is present in 2.6% of the population over 18”—to express the frequency of the disorder and the severity of it –“one can expect 1 to 2 cases of first episode mania per year.” To continue building onto the harshness of the disorder the author proceeded to describe how the complexity of a college life can exacerbate or trigger the symptoms. Psychotherapy and Psychoeducation. With this section of the…

must have symptoms which would be defined by manic or mixed episodes that last at least seven days, or by manic symptoms that are so severe that the person needs immediate hospital care (NIMH 2014). Within the video Manic Episode-Sweethearts (1997) mania is introduced in the scene by the main female character. During this scene what resonated with me most was the fact that the…

it’s hard for them to focus or keep any sort of mental clarity. This is seen on line 143 when Jane says she would, “lay there for hours trying to decide…” Her heightened mental activity shows that she’s transitioning from a state of depression to mania. Further into the story at line 213, Jane also displays the classic symptom of hyposomnia. This is witnessed above as she lies awake in bed at night, and in her statement, “…for you see I don’t sleep much.” Others also observe her hyposomnia.…

Clinicians are not allowed to prescribe we can suggest medication. There are a several medications a psychiatrist could prescribe to assist Jenny in regulating the acute effects she is experiencing. The purpose for medication treatment of her acute mania is remission, which is described as resolution of her state of mind or improvement to the extent that one or two behaviors are mildly lingering (UpToDate, 2016). The medication may include mood stabilizer, antipsychotic, antidepressant,…