Category 1: The Basics
This percentage represents how many U.S. adults experience bipolar disorder annually.
What is 2.8%?
This type of episode in Bipolar I must last at least 7 days or require hospitalization.
What is a manic episode?
Serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine are examples of these chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
Movies and TV often portray individuals with this media stigma of being unpredictably violent or unstable.
What is media stigma?
Moving past everyday casual phrases lets us look at these actual clinical concepts.
What are clinical realities?
Bipolar II is defined by a pattern of depressive episodes shifting with this milder elevated energy form.
What is hypomania?
Twin and family studies show high rates of this, meaning it strongly runs in families.
What is heritability?
This medication class (such as lithium) is used in pharmacotherapy.
What are mood-stabilizing medications / lithium?
Bipolar disorder involves extreme, atypical shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and this daily area.
What is daily functioning?
True or False: Bipolar II ever involves full-blown mania.
What is False?
Chemical dysregulation of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine regulates energy and this.
What is mood?
Modern treatment combines pharmacotherapy with this form of talk therapy like CBT.
What is psychotherapy?
Bipolar disorder is a serious psychological mood disorder characterized by dramatic cycles between emotional highs and these severe lows.
What is severe lows / emotional highs?
Bipolar I usually includes separate episodes classified under this major diagnosis.
What is major depressive episodes?
These external events often act as a catalyst for a person's first major episodes.
What are environmental stressors?
Modern treatment helps patients live these kinds of successful, stable lives.
What is stable and successful?