Mark Webber

Mark Webber

Mark was a good man with a good job and a happy family he liked to do a lot of different computer jobs since programming was his life. He was really good at medical equipment design drafting and made a good living on it, he did this for about 5 yrs. He also did programming computers for stage production lights but also took part in several technology related odd jobs. Mark suffered from schizophrenia, depression, and was anti-social when he was in his mid-forties he had a very serious accident. It happened when he was riding his motorcycle home he got hit by a big moving van which left him in a coma for a couple of days and his left arm useless. The disorders he was suffering from increased and he changed for the worse in the eyes of his family and close friends. Mark had always suffered from bipolar disorder since his early thirties it’s a disorder that can last a lifetime and about 1 percent of the population suffer from it.

Many people have experience episodes of mania as well as episodes of depression and have to deal with it for many years. There are three types of bipolar mood disorders: bipolar 1 is characterized by having experienced at least one manic episode and having episodes of major depression. Bipolar 2 have experienced at least one depressive episode, but do not have full-blown manic episodes. Instead, they have periods of hypomania: periods of increased energy that are less severe and shorter than manic episodes but can last for short days at a time. Cyclothymia is a chronic but less severe form of mood disorder people who fit this usually have rapid cycling of hypo manic and depressive episodes. These disorders can be severe and long enough to cause social and occupational dysfunction. Individuals who are surrounded by an environment or family high in criticism and hostility have a hard time not relapsing. Genes have been shown to account for much of the vulnerability factor for developing bipolar mood...