Bipolar Case Study

Introduction:

The topic of my assignment is Bipolar which is known as a mental disorder that is characterized by serious mood swings. Not too long away it was known by the public as manic depression. The personage is a fictitious male of 24 year of age with the name of Sweeney Todd. His father has been diagnosed with bipolar also and has stayed in a hospital during his treatment.

General description of Bipolar: Bipolar often reveals itself often during the later adolescence years of a person, and experiences two types of alternating peeks in their behavior. This is also known as manic and a depressive period. The manic behavior reveals itself in one possible two or more weeks of an elevated mood and goal focused mentality. The other side is an experience of depression of equally one or two weeks

Bipolar is known for mainly two types of conditions, which are; I, II. Symptoms of these type of conditions are; Bipolar I which is characterized by one or several manic episodes or a combination of both mania and depression which takes place almost every day for one week or more. Bipolar I is also known as the more severe condition out of the two. Bipolar II is also characterized by one or more manic episodes and one or several depressive episodes. Bipolar II is diagnosed after a major depression followed with period of a stabile mood period of several weeks or months between the episodes.
The mood swings are known for its’ cycling showing the peeks of both the manic and depressive stage. There are two types of this cycles known, which are called slow and rapid cycling. To see how these cycles look like I have provided an image of both bipolar cycles. For this particular assigment I have chosen Bipolar I, which is as earlier mentioned the more severe condiotion of this