Mypaper should be on Bi-Polar disorder and therapies that address it

Running Head: HEALTH
Bi-Polar Disorder and Therapies
Introduction
The underlying assignment is based on discussing Bi-Polar disorder and therapies used for addressing it. Bi-Polar disorder is understood as serious kinds of mental illness that results in unusual and severe mood changes. The person suffering from Bi-Polar disorder often experiences ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ that lasts for few days and some time. The person suffering from Bi-Polar disorder experience different forms of mood changes and depression, these forms changes rapidly, even multiple times in a day or week. A person suffering from severe Bi-Polar disorder also experience some kinds of psychotic symptoms such as delusions, thoughts of self-harm, or suicide. It creates negative impact on person’s overall ability to function and behave normally in routine daily life, for example, damaged personal relationship, suicidal thoughts, and other kinds of fears (Bowden, 2001).
Bi-Polar disorder is a kind of long-term illness like heart disease or disease that needs adequate management throughout the life. The detailed discussion regarding Bi-Polar disorder and therapies to address it is discussed in detailed terms below:
Bi-Polar disorder and therapies to address it
Bi-Polar disorder is a kind of mental illness that causes dramatic changes and shifts in person’s mood, behaviour and reaction. It affects normal person’s ability to think and perceive clearly, at times, it causes high and low moods understood as mania and depression. Under this mental health condition, a person experiences extreme mood swings for example, feeling sad, hopeless, losing interest and pleasure in most activities. On the other hand, when a person’s mood shifts to mania, he feels euphoric, full of energy and irritable. All these forms of mood swings affect sleeping behaviour, energy level, activity, judgement and ability to think clearly. It is also worth mentioning that episodes of mood swings sometimes occur rarely or at different times in a year. Also, some people might experience emotional symptoms at several intervals, while some may not experience it any time (Shah, Grover and Rao, 2017).
People with Bi-Polar disorder face different extreme and intense nature emotional states that occur at different point of times, therefore called as mood episodes. These mood swings are categorised as manic, hypomanic and depressive, however, it is found that people suffering with Bi-Polar disorder have period of normal moods as well. This disorder is quite common among adults, as around 2.8% of US adults or more than 5 million people are diagnosed with this disorder. The symptoms of Bi-Polar disorder are noticed in the early age of 25 years old when people start experience high changes in their mood and behaviour (Grassi-Oliveira, Daruy-Filho and Brietzke, 2010).
Bi-Polar disorder occurs in three different conditions-Bi-Polar I, Bi-Polar II, and cyclothymic disorder as described in detailed terms.
Bi-Polar I: This type of disorder cause high changes and dramatic shifts in one’s mood swings. During this disorder, people often feel at high and top of the world, or, on the other hand, feels highly irritable and uncomfortable. The depressive episode might make a person feeling sad and hopeless.
Bi-Polar II: In this disorder, a person experiences at least one major kind or form of depression, returns back to normal routine activities between it. Treatment is highly required in this disorder due to depressive symptoms, in the absence of treatment, the symptoms can be severe. In this, people are also found as suffering from some other co-occurring mental illnesses such as anxiety disorder and any other kind of substance use disorder. (Jabal, et. Al. 2018).
Cyclothymic disorder: This is quite milder form of bipolar disorder which involves several kinds of mood swings and ups-downs. This occur quite often and changes constantly, however, symptoms are less severe and risky than bipolar I and II.
If left untreated or undiagnosed, Bi-Polar disorder can worsen and negatively affects person’s routine or normal functioning. The symptoms of Bi-Polar vary and depend on person to person. However, this condition affects men and women on equal level. The symptoms of Bi-Polar disorder and its severity vary among person to person. Usually, a person with Bi-Polar disorder experience distinct kind of manic and depressed states, and, it may also last for extended periods, for example, a year. In this period, a person may experience...