Bipolar Disorder

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Bipolar Disorder

• The Advantages of Madness

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The Origins of the Diagnoses

• Earliest realization
• Manico-melancolicus
• Circular insanity
• Farlet and Baillarger

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Explained

• Mood shifts
• Bizarre behavior

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Mania

• What is it
• How is it for those experiencing it
• Disturbing tails
• Diagnostic checklist

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Depression

• The symptoms
• The moods
• The man
• The DSM IV requirements

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Causes

• Genetics
• Chemical reasoning

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Advantages

• Descriptions

Creativity
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Isaac Newton

• Delusions
• Suspicious temper
• Discoveries
• admirers
• No mercy
• Heart of gold
• Peaceful death

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Van Gogh

• Am I to suffer imprisonment of the madhouse
• Excitability
• Complete madness
• Death

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Closing

• The retched effects of bipolar disorder can have
  terrible confusing effects on the psyche, leaving
  us to wonder what could have become of a great
  man.

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