Social Change and Increasing of Bipolar Disorders: An Evolutionary Model. Bipolar Disorder and Creativity. In the 1970s, Nancy Andreasen carried out the first empirical study of creativity and mental disorder at the University of Iowa. Andreasen studied the mental histories of a group of 30 prominent authors, expecting to find a strong correlation between creativity and schizophrenia. Although she found no history of schizophrenia amongst the authors, she did find an unexpectedly strong history of mood disorders: 80 per cent of her sample of authors had experienced at least one episode of major depression, hypomania, or mania, compared to only 30 per cent of a matched control group. Andreasen followed-up the authors for the next 15 years and found that 43 per cent of them had bipolar disorder compared to only 10 per cent of the control group and 1 per cent of the general population.
During the 15 years of the follow-up study, two of the authors committed suicide. For Andreasen, ‘Issues of statistical significance pale before the clinical implications of this fact.’ The Royal Academy Study. Live Successfully Online Course. Living Successfully with a Mood Disorder is an online course consisting of approximately four hours worth of video-taped training delivered by DBSA staff members, accompanied by a synchronized PowerPoint presentation and downloadable handouts. The Living Successfully course is normally delivered in local communities across the United States by trained DBSA grassroots volunteeers as a four-week course about how to live a healthy, full, meaningful life with depression or bipolar disorder. DBSA is happy to also offer the Living Successfully Online Course in an effort to provide basic information about living with mood disorders to as many people as possible.
Course Trainings When Finished... Please click on the link below and complete the survey for DBSA's Living Successfully on-line Learning program. Once you complete the survey you will be emailed your course completion certificate. Click here for survey. My theory on bipolar. In a way, we are better than the "Normal" people... : bipolar.
Bipolar is not a good thing. : BipolarReddit. [subtitled] Part 1: Stephen Fry The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive. You Are Not Alone. From Bi-Polar to Jesus - Healing from Manic Depression - NLP for Christians. PART I – Introduction As an adult, I often asked myself, “Where am I?” I knew I was stuck, stuck in a world that had somehow bled into my adult life. “How did this happen? I know I’m not there anymore. I’ve succeeded. I made it after all and I am not living on the street, proof in itself. As a child, I questioned, “Why am I still here?” I became a strong person and yet I remained a weak link. I am thankful for my turbulent past. I conformed to my surroundings as a child and found nothing but death. PART II – The beginning of “Limiting Beliefs” and learning how to be Bipolar As a child, I often begged for support from a mother I feared and mistrusted, while pleading for help from a god, I wasn’t sure existed.
“Please” and “help” were empty words that fell on silent ears and I became increasingly desperate to get away. I defined the word “love” early in my childhood life and to this day, I have never forgotten its meaning. A child left alone in a house called a home Crying eyes is the shame. Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Illness): Mood Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition.
In bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness), episodes of depression alternate with episodes of mania or a less severe form of mania called hypomania. Mania is characterized by excessive physical activity and feelings of elation that are greatly out of proportion to the situation. Bipolar disorder is so named because it includes the two extremes, or poles, of mood disorders—depression and mania. It affects slightly less than 4% of the U.S. population to some degree. Bipolar disorder affects men and women equally. However, women are more likely to have symptoms of depression, and men are more likely to have symptoms of mania. Bipolar disorder usually begins in a person's teens, 20s, or 30s and rarely earlier (see Bipolar Disorder in Children(Manic-Depressive Illness)). Bipolar disorders are classified as Causes Hereditary is thought to be involved in the development of bipolar disorder. Symptoms Episodes consist of depression, mania, or less severe mania (hypomania).
Mania: Madness & the Chaotic Energies of The Trauma Trap? | Bipolar Disorder Batesy. Is a new understanding and appreciation of Trauma, re-defining our view of Madness & Mental Illness? Is the experience of Mental Illness being re-defined, as The Trauma Trap? Does the Human Mind, actively block a Natural Process, of Trauma Resolution? Resulting in the signs and symptoms of Mental Illness?
Its hard for us humans to give up our egoic conviction, that the mind is the center of the known Universe (no pun intended, of coarse). Yet are we entering an era of science research and spiritual yearning, which may be ushering in the golden age, so many Mad Euphoric's, have long predicted? Is Religious Ecstasy, for example, one of the positive symptoms, now considered an illness in our objectively rational, modern era?
Trauma and Spirituality: In a lifetime of working with traumatized individuals, I have been struck by the intrinsic and wedded relationship between trauma and spirituality. So what does "Trauma Trap," actually mean? A TRAUMA TRAP? Tonic Immobility - Freezing? The Trust & Give Method for Doing Authentic Business: Lessons from the Greeks. I travel for a lot of reasons. My favorite reason is not knowing. Not knowing the people, stories or ideas that might come, but being certain of one thing – that I’ll be surprised. The last three weeks I spent exploring Greece didn’t disappoint. It was as if every local we met was running off the same unspoken rule – to trust and give.
And since it happens to be the same rule we talked about last week, today I thought I’d share a few personal experiences from our travels to give you a feel for how refreshing it is to be on the receiving end of things. Imagine if the rest of the world showed up the way these people do… Yiannis, the owner of the cafe below our apartment in Paros, offered to give us the local’s tour of the island during his day off – even though he works full-time by day and runs his bar six nights a week, often closing after 2am. A fisherman had just come out of the water with a haul of fresh octopus and sea urchin. Later that afternoon, we came back for lunch. -Scott. BipolarFilter: Help with bipolar manic phase. - mental health.
Is it possible for my wife (with my help) to manage a possible hypomanic stage down without meds and without too much of a depression swing? A little background because for the last four years we have convinced ourselves that she may not even BE bipolar: My wife, to my experience with her for the first ten years together, never really seemed to me (or to herself) to fit the profile very well for bipolar. She could be very focused and drivien with projects but nothing obsessive or exaggerated. And no real put-your-finger-on-it-capital-"D" Depression episodes. Then in 2003 at 36 she decided to quit smoking. The ramp-up symptoms were feeling she could do anything and hyper-activity, sleeplessness, irritability, grandiosity, obsessing about good/evil, and hyper-sexuality. For four years we have wondered if her ramp-up, episode, and subsequent depression were a byproduct of the antidepressant she took to quit smoking.