PNG 2254 Mental Health Nursing:
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an alteration in mood that may be expressed by feelings or elation, inflated self
esteem, grandiosity, hyperactivity, agitation, racing thoughts and accelerated speech
✓ mania
characterized by mood swings from profound depression to extreme euphoria (mania)
with intervening periods of normalcy
✓ Bipolar disorder
What are some S&S of Bipolar?
✓ delusions, hallucinations, manis, hypomania
during a manic episode the mood is elevated, expansive or irritable enough to cause an
impairment in this
✓ social and occupational functioning
what is the average onset of bipolar (AGE)
✓ 25
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does bipolar disorder occur more frequently in lower or higher socioeconomic classes?
✓ higher
in this type of bipolar disorder the individual may have experienced a depressive
episode in the past, the client is now experiencing a full syndrome of manic or mixed
symptoms
✓ Bipolar #1
in this type of bipolar disorder the client may have had bouts of major depression with
episodic hypomania, client has NEVER met criteria for a full manic episode
✓ Bipolar #2
this this type of bipolar disorder disturbance of mood is considered to be the direct
effect of physiological effects of a substance
✓ substance induced bipolar disorder
This type of bipolar disorder is characterized by an abnormally and persistently
elevated, expansive and irritable mood judged to be the physiological effects of
another disorder
✓ Bipolar disorder associated with another condition
Twin and family studies suggest bipolar may be attributed to this
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