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This is a 9 page paper discussing the symptoms, diagnosis, treatments and legal, ethical and cultural considerations in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, currently affects over 2 million people in the United States. The disorder consists of a combination of mania, hypomania, and depression. The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) provides a good outline for clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose the disorder and recommendations for treatment of symptoms for patients with bipolar disorder. However, further research in the area of mental illness also stresses the need for therapists and clinicians during the treatment of the disorder to take into consideration the stresses of the family members, medical ethical and legal issues in the treatment of mental illness, as well as race, age, gender, socio-economic and cultural issues which may also play a large role in the treatment of a patient with bipolar disorder and the general mental health of the society.
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mania, hypomania, and depression. The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) provides a good outline for clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose the disorder and
recommendations for treatment of symptoms for patients with bipolar disorder. However, further research in the area of mental illness also stresses the need for therapists and clinicians during the treatment
of the disorder to take into consideration the stresses of the family members, medical ethical and legal issues in the treatment of mental illness, as well as race, age, gender,
socio-economic and cultural issues which may also play a large role in the treatment of a patient with bipolar disorder and the general mental health of the society. Symptoms and
Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness, has been is said to occur in 1.2% of the current adult population in the United States, or
approximately 2.2 million people. Known as a mood altering disorder there are several specific symptoms which must have been experienced or observed for a patient to be diagnosed with bipolar
disorder: mania, hypomania, depression and/or a mixed episode (Frances, Docherty and Kahn, 2002; Comer, 2002). Within the discipline of the study of mental illness, there are also several different terms
used to describe common patterns within bipolar disorder such as bipolar I disorder where a person may experience manic or mixed episodes but almost always experiences depressions as well; bipolar
II disorder where a person experiences hypomanic and depressive episodes but not full manic or mixed episodes; rapid cycling bipolar disorder where a person experiences at least four episodes each
year and they can be any combination of manic, hypomanic, mixed or depressive episodes; and schizoaffective disorder which is a condition which sometimes overlaps bipolar disorder in that the person
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