How will you use the information explored in the video when working with a client living with Bipolar Disorder in your role as a social worker? “Ride the Tiger; A guide through the bipolar brain”. Was an amazing an fascinating documentary, this was the first time I started learning and understanding the complexity of mental illness. Although most of the individuals, interviewed in the documentary expresses their experience with Bipolar Disorder the technological part to unfold how the brain function was quite interesting.
I have been around couple of friends and family members diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, and more often their diagnosis comes as result of manic episodes which ranges from; inflated self-esteem, talkative behavior, flight of ideas, attentions easily drawn to irrelevant things and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities.
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According to a 1994 survey by the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) “Roughly half of people with bipolar disorder see at least three mental health professionals before getting a correct diagnosis and about one-third of those with bipolar disorder received their diagnosis more than a decade after they sought treatment. For instance, Depression; Bipolar disorder is more often is exhibited by extreme shifts in mood that can vary between deep depression and mania or an abnormal elevated mood. According to Dr Nassir Ghaemi of Tuff Medical Center Boston “About 40% of patient diagnosed with bipolar disorder are initially were diagnosed with depression which does not involve mood swings or