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.

Patients with bipolar disorder performed significantly lower compared with healthy subjects. As the number of years of formal education, no significant differences between groups (Sachs, 2000). The largest decline was related to executive function and verbal learning, but instead, attention, psychomotor processing speed and immediate memory were much less affected. However, it was found the same degree of deterioration in all determinations of executive function.

It is not possible to conclude that cognitive deficits presented by patients represent euthymic show a characteristic feature of the disease, since residual symptoms and medication are significant confounding factors. In general, bipolar patients have shown a small but symptomatic level can affect performance. Taking into account the presence of symptoms, differences between groups can become insignificant, however, in most studies that took into account the symptoms related to mood revealed the persistence of a deficit between bipolar patients. However, it should be noted that the criteria used to define euthymia vary widely among different studies (Sachs, Et., al, 2000).

According to that reported in other studies, cognitive deficits are present in patients enrolled in the earliest stages of the disease and their healthy first-degree relatives genetically vulnerable to file. It is therefore possible that cognitive impairment is a characteristic feature of patients with bipolar disorder. Auún must determine the impact of the administration of psychotropic drugs on cognitive functioning. However, since even cognitive disturbances were found in bipolar patients receiving no medication, it is possible that mood stabilizers are not entirely responsible for the deterioration mentioned. No known effects of other drugs such as benzodiazepines and antipsychotics.

According to the results, there are data supporting the presence of cognitive impairment among patients with bipolar disorder, particularly in relation to executive functioning and verbal learning. There was a large effect size for 2 aspects ...