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The four humors of bipolar disorder
said that you have a bipolar disorder or manic depression? Have you wondered what bipolar disorder really means? This article will help you make sense of what had happened you or a loved one.
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder is neurobiological. The bipolar disorder is a physical illness with the brain. This is not character flaws or laziness. If you have bipolar disorder, you may not be intentional. “Moody” You can not be. “Coping” is a person with diabetes can “solve” not to have diabetes, or release you have
However, a bipolar disorder is not that you did not take steps to restore your health. Many of you have difficulties with bipolar disorder with the fact that you prevented a real problem that your brain regulate mood correctly. You can have from the strong influence of this disorder on your life had to be reeling. But the more you learn about bipolar disorder, the best idea you can win and who will help you better manage your disease.
Bipolar literally means two poles, so that in bipolar disorder there are two “poles” or extreme mood but the thought of bipolar disorder in relation to the two extremes of the mood is deceptive implied. It is more accurate to think of bipolar disorder as a series of moods.
Our aim in the rest of this article will answer these questions: What is the mood? What is the normal mood? What is depression? What are hypomania and mania? How can I respond to the challenges of bipolar disorder?
What mood?
Humor is a very strong word. It has more the meaning of the words spirit, courage, and to endeavor to be determined, energetic. An even older word that means only your own mood or normal behavior. Sun sentiment means more than feeling happy or sad. Mood includes much of what we need to live. Mind, spirit and courage, effort and energy, customs and behavior are all associated with mood and our sense of well being. Thus, a bipolar disorder affects us in many ways presents challenges as well as skills such as creativity and increased sensitivity to the world around us. Many bipolar disorder have influenced our lives and culture. They include Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Robert Schumann.
Bipolar disorder is more than when we feel happy or sad at some point. Bipolar disorder can be emotionally painful and have a great impact on our lives. At the same time it is a disorder that affects all aspects of mood. In addition to the challenges it poses, there are also gift of seeing the world differently from others whose spirits remain within a normal range.
As already mentioned, the concept of bipolar disorder as two extremes of mood is misleading, even if the bipolar term implies only two poles of the mood of depression and mania. It is more accurate to suggest that bipolar disorder as a variety of moods.
At its heart is the inability of the brain to regulate mood. This inability to regulate, the mood within the normal range of results in various degrees of depression or mania. Sometimes even a mixed mood state, the elements of depression and mania may have. In a bipolar disorder, your mood takes a life of its own, independent of what happens in your life. Your mood is independent of your experience. This “switching off” the mood and experience presents challenges in daily life. Sense of identity and self-esteem can be affected. symptoms such as extreme irritability can affect relationships. Sadness and despair can be overwhelming, and even lead to suicide. The self-esteem can not know what to expect on your mood from day to day, even from hour to hour or minute by minute lost.
What is the normal mood?
From the normal atmosphere is important because it is difficult to understand the mood of a person suffering from bipolar disorder from a. Most people take for granted that they feel happy and satisfied most of the time. Happiness or satisfaction describes normal mood. Especially if you suffer from a bipolar depression, you may not recognize that most people feel the best time. Most people have a stable mood no major changes. The mood instability is the hallmark of bipolar disorder. This instability makes it difficult to recognize the normal atmosphere. Just as it may help you understand the normal mood difficult to understand, the depression around you have difficulties, hypomania or mania. For example, many people with normal mood say they are “depressed” when they are in a bad light. It is best described as a “Blue Mood” that passes quickly described.
The difference between depression and a mood that is blue blue mood can vary slightly, but remains within a normal range. Blue mood did not stay very long in the extreme, but throws shortly thereafter. Can also enjoy recreational activities remains. For example, if someone is using a normal feeling to have a bad mood, they may decide to go to the movies with friends. This can be fun and can even lift the mood of the person concerned. Depression is different in that it is much more intense and lasts a few weeks to several months or even years. Go to the cinema not to the depressed person to help “separate” from depression. In our example, a depressed person not even be able to enjoy the video.
What is depression?
Depression is an intensely sad mood that lasts for at least two weeks. It can be characterized by irritability (usually irritability, anxiety), and the loss of joy. Take the example above to go to the movies. If you are depressed you may not be able to enjoy a movie or an outing with friends. Sadness, irritability and loss of pleasure, the emotional elements of depression.
Depression has also cognitive functions. Cognitive means thinking. In other words, thoughts can be affected by depression. Often, attention and concentration are impaired. Concentration is able to be what you want, you can pay thoughts or tasks to do. The focus is now on the way, without forgetting what you do or are easily distracted.
A second feature of cognitive depression is a feeling of uselessness. This can take many forms. Examples are convinced that you can not do things by the conviction that you have no friends, or the belief that a mistake in life. Keep in mind that I describe with the word on this belief in the cognitive function. This is because the feeling of worthlessness do with the reality of their services, how many friends you or your success can do in life. Cognitive function of a sense of worthlessness, has nothing to do with the actual self-confidence, but everything to do with thinking, that can accompany depression.
Despair is another feature of cognitive depression, makes you see the world realistically. The thought process sense of despair, because you is your mind does not function normally. If you want to hurt yourself or others, you need a safe place. This place can with others who can observe your behavior, but rather hospital stay be necessary to pass the extreme despair. If you are in the depths of despair, you should seek help. This may mean calling your psychiatrist, therapist or a trusted person who cares about you. An alternative is a suicide hotline (1.800.SUICIDE) call or call the 911th Keep in your purse or wallet, a note that said: “.. I’m suicidal, I need help” If you’re not suicidal people show some confidence and give them instructions on how to get help. You can use the note, if you feel suicidal, but can not ask for help.
Our bodies are also affected by depression. You can sleep too much or too little, but still tired. You lose your appetite or have a normal appetite. You can include headache, upset stomach or fatigue. Or you may be wondering is crying uncontrollably.
What is hypomania and mania?
Hypomania is a word that is a little confusing. Hypo means under and hypomania is a state of mind, the “ongoing.” It is not as extreme as mania, but somewhere between mania and normal mood. Hypomania is clearly more difficult and remains hidden too often. Mania is easier to see.
Mania is waiting for an expansive mood only to be seen by all. Because mania is often pleasant, you do not want the treatment of mania. Initial treatment may be a bit like giving a good friend. Unfortunately, bringing friendship mania serious challenges in your life that it can be less straightforward. lifelong treatment, it is also your mood, so you can happily and achieve your goals in life. untreated mania leads to instability and will significantly disrupt your life.
There are two types of bipolar disorder, bipolar I and bipolar II. Bipolar I mania is characterized by, different bipolar II, that it is characterized by hypomania. Both belong swings into depression, but depression more prevalent mood in bipolar II disorder are. should the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, mania or hypomania must be present at some point and depression also be present at another time.articleIn the following discussion relates to the way both hypomania and mania.
We will continue by examining the emotional features of mania. Mood instability is a hallmark of mania. Mania is a practice of “catch as catch can”, because your mood passes quickly. For example, you could suddenly contagious energy in the room for all. You can laugh, tell jokes, and almost completed for the all around you. But the atmosphere is unstable and in a short time can be a very different experience, not to go sit still. This agitation can lead to research from the room to go to another activity to begin.
Another feature is that emotional irritability mania. The irritability of the Depression Anxiety quality. In the mania and irritability can we get frustrated easily. You feel as if we could crawl out of your skin. The irritability of mania is often confused with anger. Anger is distinguished in that it seeks attention, and irritability, no special attention. Anger target actions could be another person, circumstance or perhaps a perceived failure of self or others. If you have the mania of the irritability you feel volatile and can go every little thing. They are easily frustrated. Mania often causes irritability, difficulty in relationships, especially if others interpret your angry irritability.
Mania also has cognitive or thought. One of these is delusions of grandeur. With a great idea, you can provide ideas and plans so big and heavy that they are impossible to achieve. In mania, but are you sure they are good in their own abilities. For example, you can believe that you climb Mount Everest, even if you have never seen a mountain. Other cognitive characteristics of mania include lack of procedures, the disorganization and lack of impulse control. If you experience any of these features of mania, you might have trouble with relationships, you are overwhelmed by clutter, or go on spending sprees. These challenges can cause cognitive problems at home, at work or in your community.
A feature of the mania that affect the body, has the power, despite decreased sleep increased. You can not sleep for days or weeks with little sleep or spend and still high energy. (Compare associated with the extreme fatigue often associated with depression.) High-energy mania can result in a rate fast or racing thoughts. If you use these functions you can not see them as “quick” or “race”. Instead, it may seem that the world has slowed. Your thoughts may seem intrusive, losing weight on issues other than the address you want. You can feel the tension as if you can not sit still or stop moving. However, when the mania is less extreme, you can be more productive than normal and can achieve tasks more efficiently than people without bipolar disorder.
psychotic symptoms may also occur, such as hearing things that are not present or seeing things that are not there. If these symptoms occur, they must immediately contact your doctor or call 911, especially if you think you are in danger to himself or others. If things are this serious, others have often occur because you need to know may not be able to help.
How can I respond to the challenges of bipolar disorder?
The biggest challenge in bipolar disorder is the inability of the brain to regulate mood. Understanding this is important to learn how to manage your disease. When your brain is not to keep your mood in a normal range, you are challenged to seek treatment. Medication and psychotherapy, sometimes known as talk therapy, can help. It is important to recognize that the treatment goal is not to take away your personality and creativity. It is brilliant in regulating your moods, so your personality and creativity through a healthy and productive lives. Since the treatment works, you will feel better and can give your life to achieve goals.
You can also help by providing information in your community and between the groups of bipolar recovery. Bipolar disorder is treatable, and you will feel better and better able to achieve your goals in life, if you seek treatment. Support from others helps you learn to manage the challenges of bipolar disorder.
The need for mental health nurses to promote sexual health
This article focuses on the need for mental health nurses to promote sexual health. As a mental health nurse, I noticed that during the practice nurses with problems related to sexual health issues in mental health are facing. Customers have experienced sexual health needs that nurses are not respected and many nurses have confessed that they from the depths.
Lomas (2009) a survey with at least 283 mental health professionals, half of them were nurses. Research has shown that although 80% of participants supported the idea that the promotion of sexual health was an important part of their role, only 30%, less than half of the participants regularly discussed sexual health with patients, mental health (Lomas, 2009). Lomas also made a revelation (2009), the survey indicated that 92% of respondents do not know that people with schizophrenia have been exposed to an increased risk of HIV infection than the general population, 72% n still not convinced that they have won more in high-risk sexual behavior. The 14% of the participants felt comfortable discussing sexual health issues with patients in mental health issues of gay and lesbian is a very unpleasant 13% of them. This application, when the mental health nurses are well equipped to sexual health (Lomas, 2009)
Thus, the psychiatric nurses learn to promote the provision of the National Council estimate of Midwives Women (2004) points out that Health professionals should continuously update the knowledge and skills throughout our working lives and participate regularly in learning activities that develop our competence and efficiency. To support this, Higgins et al (2006) suggested that people with “severe” psychological problems involved in the end probably in a high sexual activity in order to create vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. In Higgins and review of the literature al (2006) 1980 to 2005 with emphasis on sex education and sexual dysfunction of prescribed drugs, it was confirmed that sex education programs have been beneficial. Education proved to be a reduction in risky sex compared to the end to produce complete. This highlights the question no doubt that mental health professionals should make an effort to provide a holistic service that will make the promotion of sexual health (Higgins et al 2006)
In a similar study includes, but this time were the use gloves Hughes and Gray (2009) shows that only 61% of participants reported using gloves during the administration of an injection. Hughes and Gray (2009) continue to say that nurses and risk of infection by not wearing gloves.
In a study by Cochran and Mays (2000) carried out, the evidence was clear There is a risk of escalating symptoms of suicide was seen among gay men. Cochran and Mays (2000), explains that some gay men also reported the risk of recurrent depression increased marginally. This makes again the need for psychiatric nurses to be aware and well equipped with the knowledge vec sexual health to be able to assist their customers with a holistic not discretionary. (Cochran and Mays 2000)
Implications for practice
This exercise has identified gaps in service delivery. From my own experience, I have seen situations where clients of the mental health put pills in the service and the role of nurses to administer. This question, whether those customers with severe mental illnesses are aware of other sexual health problems. In support of these was the Royal College of Nursing (2001), in addition to the contraceptive teenage pregnancies and sexual infections are some important questions that have a large impact on health care practice. The Royal College of Nursing (2001) noted that “Sexual Health on the general care of patients and customers,” he brought the attention of the clinical practice, teaching practice, pre-clinical and clinical development of policies for the integrated support of sexual health. This has shown that evidence-based practice is essential for the successful delivery of holistic care. These include sexual health for patients of Mental facilitated mental health nurses. To support this, Dawes et al (2005) notes that evidence-based practice to ensure that health care professionals to practice in individual research and success. Each nurse must examine the evidence for practice in a variety of areas in which it is a requirement of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2004).
A good knowledge base on the promotion of sexual health is not only to educate customers about sexual mental health, but if health promotion is carried out by psychiatric nurses, it could become profitable. It will also make support of the Government in fulfilling its obligation in the NHS plan for progress in improving poor health (The Royal College of Nursing (2001)).
The delivery of health care system is undermined by a lack of resources. Update knowledge and skills to ensure the optimal use of these resources put into practice. A CVT allows the individual to practice in this area requires the development of this health promotion event for sexual health nurses, mental, that is made possible by gaps in their knowledge and experience. Therefore it gives the individual the opportunity, knowledge and skills they have and what to their level of professional practice expected to compare (ICPD 2010).
Conclusion
As a result, this article has demonstrated the adequacy of mental health nurses with a good basic knowledge of sexual health and the benefits thereof, and used by the demonstration in the literature in this exercise emphasizes support the need for mental health nurses have received health and sex knowledge of mental health patients, such as sex education. It was also shown that education about sexual health, it can be shown to reduce sexually transmitted infections. It is important to note, finally gave me this exercise, a clear understanding of the importance of mental health nurses are in a position to promote sexual health. It is clear that clients with mental health problems, rather problems with experience, their sexual health.
The experience I made was clear to me that knowledge is powerful in situations where clients of the mental health do not have enough knowledge about their sexual health. Health promotion is also among the seven pillars of clinical governance initiative (DOH, 1998), where I wait to get involved in my professional practice is how a particular nurse. For ethical practice and to empower customers to live an independent life, mental health nurses need knowledge of how the needs of people with mental illness in an ethical, honest, do not meet study and that includes sexual health.