Mental Disorders and Psychopathology

This presentation covers the topic of mental disorders and psychopathology, with a focus on bipolar disorder. It includes information on the disorder's prevalence, aetiology, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, historical treatments, current treatments, advantages/disadvantages, and issues in provision and policy. The presentation also includes a case study of Stephen Hawking and principles for working with people with mental health issues from NICE.

Mental Disorders and
Psychopathology

Table of content
• Introduction
• Mental health disorder in relation to UK
• History of mental health and general treatment.
• Mental health disorder as per ICD 10
• Statistics data of Bipolar disorder
• Aetiology of bipolar disorder
• Signs/Symptoms of bipolar disorder
• Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Historical idea, treatments and past services for the chosen disorder
• Current treatments and services available and provide a judgement.
• Advantages and disadvantages of the current treatments of bipolar disorder
• Issues in provision, professional support or policy about the selected mental health issue
• Principles when working with people with....from NICE
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• A mental disorder is a dysfunction of brain in which the person or individual affects with the emotional
regulation, severalize cognition and also changing into the behaviour.
• It affects basic areas of functioning into the body is refers as mental disorder(Derevensky and Richard,
2020).

Mental health disorder in relation to UK
• Mental health disorder for example depression,
anxiety create a major impact on the way
people feel and behave.
• That is why the mental health of a person
comprises of the people’s social well-being,
psychological and emotional state(Cooper,
2020).

History of mental health and general
treatment
• The history of mental health was very different
in comparison to the today's mental health.
• The ancient people are most believes in
spiritual things, evil eyes, negative impacts of
evil with the patient of mental health disorder.

Mental health disorder as per ICD 10
• Bipolar disorder is a type of mental disorder in
which the individual is suffering from unusual
shifts.
• In mood swings, concentration, energy, activity
levels also able to continue the day to day task.

Statistics data of Bipolar disorder
• The prevalence of the bipolar disorder in UK,
according to the NHS digital survey says that
the 2% of the population of UK are suffering
from bipolar.
• The medication and talk therapy is provides
only 40% of the population that are suffering
from bipolar, rest of the 60% of people
monitoring bipolar and weren't received
medication at the time of the survey.

Aetiology of bipolar disorder
• The bipolar or mental health disorder is forms
by many aetiology, the major cause of bipolar
disorder is chemical imbalance in the brain (Li
Hi Shing and Bede, 2022).
• There are many chemical in brain that can be
responsible for the function of the body or brain
that is neurotransmitters and including many
hormones like noradrenaline, dopamine,
serotonin and many more.

Signs/Symptoms of bipolar disorder
• lack of interest in everyday activities.
• Self-doubt
• suicidal thought
• lacking energy
• feeling of emptiness and worthlessness
• anti-social behaviour

Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Bipolar disorder is diagnosis through many test like the doctor takes a physical exam of the bipolar
patient, take a assessment of the patient through asking of the symptoms that can be facing by the
patient(Karthik and Sudha, 2020).

Historical idea, treatments and past services
for the chosen disorder
• Many of the peoples are believes in the spiritual things to treat mental disorder, They were think that
mental disorder is a sign of negativity or supernatural power they were used the concept of trephining.
• In the mid of the 19th century, The lithium is used as the psychiatry. It can treated many disorders
including bipolar disorder.

Current treatments and services available
and provide a judgement.
• Modern treatments requires at least one of the mood stabilized drug and there are many drugs are
invented for the mental disorders.
• . The most of the famous antipsychotic dugs are lithium carbonate, valproic acid and many more.

Advantages and disadvantages of the current
treatments of bipolar disorder
Advantages of the treatment of bipolar disorder are:
• The current treatment is more beneficial for the bipolar patient.
• The availability of the high number of medicines.
Disadvantages of the treatment of bipolar disorder:
• Current treatment includes drugs that are shows Adverse Drug Reaction.
• The current treatment is expensive and time consuming.

Support analysis with case study
• The reference of this case study is refers to
Stephen Hawking, Stephen hawking develops
motor neuron disease in the age of 20.
• A survey says that, The expectancy of the life is
about 5 years from the initially detected.
• . Stephen hawking also suffering from
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Issues in provision, professional support or
policy about the selected mental health issue
• According to the provision the government has not gives the attention to the mental health patients.
• Health professionals do not pay attention or work accuracy to the mental patients because they didn't
get the bonuses and feasible amount according to their service.

Principles when working with people
with....from NICE
• The national priorities for health and care are regulates under guidelines and standards on a particular
topic.
• The independence advisory committee that can helps in the recommendation.
• To describes the process and methods manual review it timely(Hartmann and et. al., 2019).

Conclusion
• From the above projection of information it can be evaluated that, mental disorder is a dysfunction in
brain.
• Under which the person or individual get affected with the emotional regulation, severalize cognition
and also lead to change into their activity.
• In this report, also demonstrated the principles and along with the case of Stephen Hawking. Various
advantages and disadvantages of mental disorder and motor neuron disease was also highlighted in
above report.

References
• Carvalho, A.F., Firth, J. and Vieta, E., 2020. Bipolar disorder. New England Journal of
Medicine, 383(1), pp.58-66.
• Cooper, I.R., 2020, July. The concept of disorder revisited: Robustly value-laden despite change.
In Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 141-161). Oxford University Press.
• Derevensky, J.L. and Richard, J., 2020. Response to commentary: the future of gaming disorder
research and player protection: What role should the video gaming industry and researchers
play. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 18(3), pp.800-805.
• Gupta, H.K., 2018. Stephen William Hawking. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 91(5),
pp.519-522.

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