Question Bank [2022] — Psychology STD 12 Commerce / Arts — Question
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Question
Bipolar disorder
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Answer
This is also called Manic Depressive disorder.
In this disorder the individual experiences alternate phases of extreme sadness, hopelessness, stress at one time and extreme happiness, enthusiasm, and elation at other times. In the same individual, you can see these opposite conditions one after the other. That's why it's called a manic depressive disorder.
Symptoms: The individual experiences alternate phases of two states, one in which the individual is extremely happy, excited, and elated, and in other he experiences sadness, stress, losing hopes, thinks unrealistically, gets irritable or aggressive.
Genetic factors, imbalance in neurotransmitters in the brain, mainly nor-epinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine are found to be the main causative factors.
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