Bipolar Disease

Florencio Salas
Intro Psychology
Robert Whelan
October 4, 2012
Bipolar disease

Each of us has mood swings, happiness, sadness, anger are common moodsthat we experience in our daily life. In contrast, the bipolar mood is a medical condition in which people have dramatically mood swings out of control, or withoutany relation to their life events. These mood swings affect their way of thinking, behave, feelings, and health. The bipolar disorder has different way to be treatedas using specific medications to prevent this condition or getting psychiatry help.

There is not a simple cause of bipolar disorder, but there are studies thatstrongly support that this can be a symptom related with not having a good sleep, daily stress, depression, or unstable emotions. The bipolar disorder is generallyshown first in the juvenile stage, but it can also be shown for the first time in adults. These can be related to drug abuse, alcoholism, or side effects frommedications. There are also evidences that demonstrate that this disease can be passed genetically, but it’s not consistent in all cases.

Like everything in ourbody, bipolar disorder is also related with the human brain. The brain controls our emotions, feelings, or behaviors. Therefore, this disease can actually cause amental illness causing our brain not working properly. Having this disorder, our emotions can probably overcome our wills and desires, producing thoughts in our brainthat can lead us to catastrophes like suicidal thoughts. That’s why this condition must be treated as soon as possible to maintain the good health of the individual.