BIPOLAR DISEASE

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

Introduction

Bipolar disorder is referred to the manic depression that a person faces. The person who is suffering from this disorder has serious mood swings. Not only the mood swings are serious, the changes in the thinking pattern and the energy are also serious and intense. There is no fixed time for the occurrence of the bipolar disorder. This means that the person who is experiencing intense mood swings will suffer from it to a time limit that cannot be determined. In some serious cases, the mood swings or changes in the thinking pattern may interfere in the functioning of the person. This paper will discuss my experience with a patient suffering from the bipolar disorder. It will also discuss the impact of his disorder on himself, his family and the issues he faced while accepting the disorder.

Discussion

Bipolar disorder is caused due to extreme depression and stress. Another reason for the occurrence of this disorder is that it might be hereditary. It might run in the family due to which young children in the family also suffer from it. A third reason for the occurrence of disease is that it might not have diagnosed properly in the childhood and is causing problems now.

I had an experience of living and spending some time with a patient of bipolar disease. It helped me in learning more and more about the patients who suffer from this disorder. The following part of the paper will discuss how the disease impacted him and his family.

Impact it has on family

At the family level, the dysfunction variable factors and the presence of psychosocial stress are common. I evaluated the trait neuroticism in parents of families with disorders and major affective including bipolar disorder. I found out that this feature affected the family environment, practical parental practices and increase the risk of problems psychosocial problems in children, which in turn have an increased genetic risk of vulnerability to affective disorders than the population general. These deficiencies in the functioning psychosocial families of bipolar patients' then presented a transmission path intergenerational non-genetic risk for disease. Psychosocial interventions as therapy focused in the family associated with drug treatment shows better results in thermal terms of recurrent episodes and needs of re-hospitalization than individual psychotherapies. Dual and crisis management associated with medication are also required by the family.

From the same patients did the evidence that often, periods of de-compensation were associated with acute family conflicts. People with disorder experience intense suffering bipolar disorder destroyed family relationships, caused financial problems and loss of hopes and dreams was also witnessed. Taking the model of psychotherapy that has four fundamental components mind: performance evaluation familiar, psycho-education about the disease to patients and families, skills training communication and skills training to solve problems, this disorder can also be analyzed. Bipolar patients have a better work- social relationship and employment growth, which are often married and therefore have more conflicts associated with their illness, accompanied do the persistent denial of illness and resistance ...