bipolar

Question 1

types of bi polar disorder

Answer 1

bipolar I
bipolar II
Cyclothymic disorder

Question 2

Why called bipolar?

Answer 2

Experience mania and depression during their lifetime

Question 3

What is mania?

Answer 3

State of intense elation or irritability accompanied by other symptoms

Question 4

Example of mania

Answer 4

increase in goal directed activity or physical restlessness
unusual talkativeness;
flight of ideas and thoughts are racing.

Question 5

What is bipolar I?

Answer 5

Single episode of mania or single mixed episode during the coarse of a person’s life
tend to reoccur

Question 6

What is bipolar II?

Answer 6

Atleast one major depressive episode and atleast one episode of hypomania

Question 7

Cyclothmic Disorder

Answer 7

numerous periods with hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for a maniac episode
numerous periods with depressive symptoms that do no meet the criteria for a major depressive episode.
symptoms must persist for more than 2 months

Question 8

MDD criterias

Answer 8

Sad mood or loss of pleasure in
usual activities.
At least four of the following:
● Sleeping too much or too little
● Psychomotor retardation or
agitation
● Poor appetite and weight loss,
or increased appetite and
weight gain
● Loss of energy
● Feelings of worthlessness
● Difficulty concentrating, thinking,
or making decisions
● Recurrent thoughts of death or
suicide
Symptoms are present nearly every
day, most of the day, for at least 2
weeks.
The symptoms are not due to
normal bereavement.

Question 9

Persistent Mood Disorder

Answer 9

Depressed mood more than half of the time for two years.
At least two of the following during that time:
● poor appetite or overeating
● sleeping too much or too little
● poor self-esteem
● trouble concentrating or making decisions
● hopelessness
The symptoms do not clear for more than two months at a time.
No major depressive episode was present during the first two years of symptoms.

Question 10

Beck’s theory that triad

Answer 10

Beck proposed that depression is associated with the negative triad: negative views of
the self, the world, and the future. For example, the person might
think “I cannot possibly cope with all these demands and responsibilities” as opposed to worrying
about problems in the broader world outside of their life.

Question 11

aneroxa nervosa

Answer 11

Refusal to maintain normal body
weight
● Body weight less than 85 percent
of normal
● Intense fear of weight gain
● Body image disturbance
● In women, amenorrhea