Bipolar stress, Self-Esteem and Anxiety

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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ABSTRACT

Aims

The aim of the thesis was to determine the stress, self-esteem and anxiety in bipolar and non bipolar individuals.

Research Question

The main research question was that : Is there a statistically significant difference in stress, self-esteem and anxiety in bipolar and non bipolar individuals.

Findings

The above research question is partially accepted as there is statistically significant difference in stress in the non-bipolar individuals, self-esteem in the bipolar individuals and anxiety in the non-bipolar individuals. However, the research question is partially rejected that is there is no statistically significant difference in stress in the bipolar individuals, self-esteem in the non-bipolar individuals and anxiety in the bipolar individuals.

Conclusion

Bipolar stress or manic-depressive psychosis is a mental illness characterized by mood alteration that occurs in bouts or episodes of illness that may be of mania, characterized by pathologically elevated mood and hyperactivity, depression, sadness or pathological melancholy, and occasionally mixed episode as consisting of a mixture of manic and depressive symptoms.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS1

Discussion1

Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)2

Analysis4

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION33

Results33

Assessment of Research Questions33

Conclusion33

Limitations of Research36

Recommendations36

REFERENCES38

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

Discussion

Bipolar stress is a disease that affects the mechanisms that regulate mood. The mood swings ranging from suffering manic phases (excessive euphoria) to depressive phases. In all phases, not all people with the stress passed along all his life. The patient suffers from manic or mixed episodes and often also depression. With only suffering a manic episode, the patient should be classified within this group. The episodes are often severe and frequent psychotic symptoms (hallucinations or delusions) which pose differential diagnostic and schizophrenia.

This stress usually changes mood of the people . There are two phases of the mood that people undergo. It can be said that people sometimes feel happy and contented, and tends to be more enthusiastic and excited. This mood or the phase of the depression is known as “mania”. Similarly, sometime people feel very down in the dumps and miserable, and act as being in passive. This mood phase of the stress is known as “Depression”. It is quite evident that people suffers through a sudden change in their mood, energy and behavior this is all because of bipolar stress. Thus, the name bipolar suggests the opposite changes of mood on opposite pole that is happy or sad, and down or up.

Bipolar stress (two poles) or manic-depressive stress is a mood that is characterized by mood swings between two extremes, alternating between periods of serious mania (euphoria exaggerated irritation) to depression (sadness, desperation), with periods of normal mood in ...