Bipolar Disorders and Occupational Therapy Name of the Student Professor’s Name Institute Bipolar Disorders and Occupational Therapy Introduction Bipolar disorder (also referred as Manic-depressive illness) is a chronic mental illness that is accompanied by relapsing episodes of mania and depression. An individual in the manic phase experience either a sustained elated or a sustained irritable mood along with symptoms such as hyperactivity, insomnia, inflated self-esteem, distractibility, and impaired judgment. On the contrary, an individual in that depressed phase exhibit low and depressed mood along with the classical neurovegetative symptoms of depression (Tse & Walsh, 2001). The...
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