Bipolar Disorder in America: Causes, Symptoms, and Welfare Organizations

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“Bipolar Disorder in America”
Wellbeing states the situation of being comfortable, healthy and happy. It refers to
diverse and interconnected dimensions of physical, mental and social well-being which is
extended beyond the traditional definition of health. Every situation of life states the stage of
wellbeing. Wellbeing is co-related with many dimensions of life in which health is one of the
factors which affects the situation of Wellbeing. Every nation has the responsibility to take
care of the health of people because different diseases raise many problems which affect the
wellbeing of an individual. One of such problems is Bipolar Disorder (Grunze, 2015). Bipolar
disorder is a mental disease that affects the human health and it is one of the health priorities
of the American government. The aim of this paper is to research about Bipolar disorder. In
the beginning, Bipolar disorder will be discussed. After that, the discussion is made on the
Bipolar disorder in America; the next phase of the paper states those voluntary welfare
organisations of America which help the patients. At the end of the paper, steps of the
government of America towards the health of society is discussed.
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness which happens due to depression or elevated
mood. Elevated mood is also known as mania in which an individual feels or behave
abnormally, irritable, or sad. There are two types of bipolar disorder which affect the health
of the people. In Bipolar disorder 1, people feel mania for a longer period of time and stay in
the depression period. It is a more severe type of bipolar disorder as compared to the second
type of bipolar disorder. In Bipolar disorder 2, people feel mania or depression for a shorter
period of time. These conditions of human mind are relatively normal. There are many people
who experience “mixed episodes” in which they feel some of the signs and symptoms of both
mania and depression. The symptoms of this disease depend on the mood of the person who
is experiencing. The two periods of bipolar diseases are Depression and Mania. In the phase
of Depression, people feel worthless sometimes which sometimes encourage them for
suicide. During Mania, people feel very happy and make the lots of plan and ideas. In this
period, they may spend more amount of money on those goods which cannot be purchased by
them. At this stage, people did not like eating, sleeping and getting annoyed easily that is
common symptoms of the manic phase. Mania is a positive experience for the people.
It is estimated that 2 to 7% of people in America suffer from bipolar disorder. It has
been seen that adults of America have bipolar disorder especially those who have age 18 or

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above 18 (Bipolar lives, 2018). More than 2 million adults of America had bipolar disorder.
With time the no is increasing and has reached to 5.7 million. 2.6% population of older
generation, every year suffers from bipolar disorder in America (Bipolar lives, 2018). It is
observed that the median age of bipolar disorder is 25 years; it begins in childhood and
sometimes it happens in the age of 40s and 50s. Bipolar disorder is a disease which can be
faced by any age group and affects people of all races. It has been seen that more than two-
thirds of people face bipolar disorder in the family because of illness of a relative. If one
parent has bipolar disorder, the risk of this disease to their child is around 15-30% but when
both the parents have bipolar disorder, the risk for the child increases to 50-75% (Dixon, &
Scheurell, 2016). It is observed that Women’s are more affected than men to experience the
rapid cycling. Women have more depressive episodes due to different responsibilities given
to them as compare to men. The result of bipolar disorder means the reduction in expected
life of a person; it is observed that 9.2 years has been reducing from the expected lifespan
because people commit suicide (Kessing, Vradi, McIntyre, & Andersen, 2015). It has been
analysed that 30 % of people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide during their lives and 20%
succeeded in America (Bipolar lives, 2018). In order to handle this situation different
organizations and authorities in America had to come forward.
Voluntary welfare organisation provides the welfare services to American; it is
established by building the trust with the companies, societies, and communities. The
government of America runs various welfare organisations which include the most renowned
food stamps and Medicaid programs (MSF, 2018). Transparent Hands Foundation is the first
organisation which takes care of health and wealth of Americans. Voluntary Welfare
organization of America has the duty to help the people by providing healthcare services. The
major problem of bipolar disorder is unemployment, poverty, career and many others. This
organisation provides the services to the people such as donations and charity. The small
amount changes someone’s miserable life and helps in improving the health. The
organisation also provides the medical relief under the welfare schemes.
Lutheran Service in America is a welfare organisation of America which provides the
health care and human services in the country (Edelstein, 2017). This organisation solves the
problem of people with collaboration and shares the best practices and builds trust in people.
The first priority of welfare organisations of America is to take care of the health and wealth
of the society. They solve problems of people and help in decision making which further
helps in decreasing the bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is caused due to stress which can