"How Bipolar Disorder Works"

Activity 2

I choose this article because to my it interests any subject that has relation with the "mental disease".Also actuality, many people suffer these syndromes and if it is not known about them, these can't be identified and much less to be trated medically.

In the article I found sufficient information about "Bipolar Disorder",right what hoped to find,for example the symptoms bipolar and the possible causes of its development.

The most interesting than I learned on the article was the classification of the bipolarity levels,which are:

• Bipolar I Disorder : This is the most severe form of the disorder. It includes at least one manic or mixed episode and at least one depressive episode



• Bipolar II Disorder: Patients have had at least one depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode. A patient could experience periods of normal mooods as well.



• Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (NOS): This classification is used for cases in which bipolar patients experience patterns that don't fall into the I or II categories.



• Cyclothymia: This is the least severe form of the disorder. It includes two years of episodes of hypomania and milder depression.

Glossary

Meaningless: lacking any significance.

Illness: an unhealthy condition of body or mind.

Mood: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion.

Risky: attended with risk or danger.

Despair: to lose all hope or confidence.

Sluggishness: averse to activity or exertion.

Restlessness: characterized by or manifesting unrest especially of mind.

Pains: localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder .

Delusions: a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.

Hallucinations: perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs.

Environmental: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded.

Hypomania: a mild mania especially when part of bipolar disorder .

Anticonvulsant: used or tending to control or to prevent convulsions.

Cyclothymia: relating to or being a mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of depression and elation in a form less severe than that of bipolar disorder .

Pumped: filled with energetic excitement and enthusiasm .

Article: http://health.howstuffworks.com/bipolar-disorder.htm