Essays Tagged: "mood swings"
The effects and causes of bipolar disorder / manic depression. (Includes work cited, parenthetical documentation.)
Manic Depression, or Bipolar Disorder as it's medically referred to is a mood disorder that affects approximately 1% of the adult population of the United States (BPI). Mani ... ual numbers of men and women, unlike clinical depression which seems to effect more women than men. Mood swings are highly frequent, and feelings of going through various "highs and lows" all coincide ... de to the person's condition, despite the best efforts to bring them "up".Reemphasizing the various mood swings that are characteristic of bipolar disorder, often times there are bouts of mania, follo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Heroes in the Iliad and their criteria.
l requirement of being a hero was coolness. Heroes were not permitted to be blinded by rage or have mood swings. In The Iliad, two Greeks are presented to the reader as heroes. They are Achilles and D ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
Shakespeare's tragic hero, Hamlet, and his sanity can arguably be discussed.
ory. There are also indications from Hamlet throughout the play of his mind's well being.Hamlet has mood swings as his mood changes abruptly throughout the play. Hamlet appears to act mad when he hear ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
Manic Depression/ Bi-Polar Affective Disorder (BD)
ugh to be given their own DSM categories, Bipolar I and Bipolar II.Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings, from overly high and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with ... overly high and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these changes in mood. The peri ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Manic Depression A research paper over the causes, effects, and explinations on how to deal with the disease.
MANIC DEPRESSIONBipolar disorder causes a person to have mood swings between extreme mania and deep depression; however, there are ways to regulate these flu ... rder usually begins in a person's late teens or twenties. Men usually experience mania as the first mood episode, whereas women typically experience depression first. Episodes of mania and depression ... may feel unenthusiastic about school and other activities. In adults, common symptoms include a sad mood, sleep disturbances, and a lack of energy. Elderly people with depression usually complain of p ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
This research paper discusses the link between creativity and mood disorders.
Is there a Link between Creativity and Mood Disorders?For generations creative people have dealt with the stigma of mental disorder often a ... nney, Nancy Andreasen, and Kay Jamison developed studies to examine the link between creativity and mood disorders more completely and accurately.Early studies of this social stereotyping phenomenon w ... include William Blake, Lord Byron, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson who were suspected to have had radical mood swings. Painters like Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Mingus, and Robert Schumann w ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Biography on Kaiser Wilhelm II
ve. Many contemporaries of Kaiser certainly worried about the emperor's mental state, his rages and mood swings. Some historians said that even his best friend, Philipp Eulenburg, said that Wilhelm's ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Criteria for Heroes
requirement of being a hero was composure. Heroes were not permitted to be blinded by rage or have mood swings.Perhaps the greatest example of Achilles fighting skill is when he fights with and kills ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Business Cycles and the factors in our market that affect these cycles
down as a grasshopper on amphetamines." Business cycles, in other words, can be referred to as the mood swings of an economy. A business cycle defines the various contractions and expansions that occ ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
What does Caffeine do to your body?
out low energy, extra stress, mineral depletion, exhausted adrenal glands, indigestion, anxiety and mood swings.If this sounds like you, its time to change your habit and discover the caffeine that's ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Its the classification essay on depression with the correct format.
sion is a serious medical illness. Unlike normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, depression is persistent and can significantly interfere with an individual's thoughts, ... have difficulty in thinking, concentrating, and remembering things. Some of these individuals have mood swings. Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, hopelessness and emptiness always follow them. Some o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Alzheimers Disease, what it is, what it does to your body and why.
se can affect you in many ways. It can affect the way you think and how you act. It can affect your mood and even how you talk and move. Many people mistake the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, ... d risk of having an adverse reaction, including confusion, agitation, sleepiness or sleeplessiness, mood swings, memory problems and/or stomach upset. While it may become necessary for a person to tak ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Examine Act 3 Scene 5 of 'Romeo and Juliet' closely, how does Shakespeare ensure that the scene is one of dramatic interest and how could a production enhance its effects?
scene is pivotal to the play, things change as a result of this scene. Scene 5 also has a dramatic mood swings and strong language and by its end changes the audience's views on more than one charact ... that his daughter won't accept the arranged marriage to Paris.The scene starts in a tender, loving mood, with Romeo and Juliet together on the morning after their wedding night. Shakespeare shows the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
Adolescent Depression.
cents is because "children are not always able to express how they feel." Sometimes the symptoms of mood disorders take on different forms in children than in adults. Adolescence is a time of emotiona ... ess boredom and irritability, or may choose to engage in risky behaviors (Oster; Montgomery, 1996). Mood disorders are often accompanied by other psychological problems such as anxiety (Oster & Mo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Bipolar Disorder.
lso known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes th ... rst symptoms during childhood, and some develop them late in life. Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings, from overly excited to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of nor ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Hallucinogens : effects history and lots of other things about them.
inogens cause people to have hallucinogenic experiences along with paranoia and sometimes dangerous mood swings. Many users argue that hallucinogens don't hurt the body and although hallucinogens do c ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
A poem on Mid Life crisis.
d respect me the next day.I pray that he's gainfully employed,I pray that he won't get me annoyedMy mood swings lately are getting so bad,I pray that he really won't mind playing dad.I pray that he pu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
The Brain and Its' Structures
yndrome, which results in a burning or aching sensation on one half of a body, often accompanied by mood swings" (Wikipedia, 2005).Next, is the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is an important superviso ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Steroids are gay!
. When he first started his cycle, in order to get bigger as a personal goal, steroids elevated his mood, and gave him a boost in the weight room that a healthy diet couldn't. It seemed like it was al ... mely stressful, and when he was happy, he felt almost twice as happy, but he learned to control his mood swings/roid rage, and continued his cycle.About the 3rd week into his cycle, he had noticed a d ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Drug abuse effects
he abuse can lead to behavior that causes difficulties at home. For example, personality change and mood swings, less interest in family activities, increase in arguments, needing more money or steali ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs