Dancing mania

The Dancing Plague of 1518 was an occurrence of unknown origin. Although still unsolved, there have been theories published on the subject. The theories that have been brought to light are mass hysteria caused by St. Vitus, Ergotism, Tarantism, and an unknown type of heretical cult. None of these ideas are able to truly explain the abrupt Dancing Plague that occurred in Strasbourg. This is not the first time this type of event has occurred. Dancing epidemics have also occurred in other areas of Europe

The Dancing Plague of 1518 The dancing plague of 1518 was an outburst of a large amount of villagers that were agressively dancing unwillingly for days on end until they died of exhaustion, dehydration, or strokes. Some theories were suggested to diagnos the reason for how the dancing plague occured. The theories proposed were mass panic and hysteria, ergot fungus injestion, the victims were in a trance, or that their religion and beliefs, in some way, generated the dancing plague

The dancing plague of 1518 was a mysterious event that nobody could explain. However we have a theory. The dancing plague of 1518 was just a huge lie. They most likely had some people dancing at certain times to keep up the act. Everyone in the town either believed it or was in on the lie. Some people may believe that the dancers were part of some kind of cult, however if that was the case some people would have stopped dancing. A few people assume that they must have been threatened to kill the

A manic episode includes either feeling euphoric or high levels of irritation and can last a week or longer and may require hospitalisation. A person who is mania can sometimes lose touch with reality and suffer psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions. Hypomania is similar to mania but not as intense and there are no psychotic symptoms experienced and the person will not require hospitalisation. Symptoms will last up to 4 days. Mixed states is where the person

Even though most of the patients fully return to a functional level between the crises, approximately 30% of them report having severe difficulties in their work role function (Goodwin & Jamison, 2007). When the patient has acute mania, Haloperidol is the most used medication for its properties of rapid sedation (Goodwin & Jamison, 2007). Another medication that is used is IM olanzapine to calm acute manic agitation (Goodwin & Jamison, 2007). When the patient has extreme hyperactivity

that kills her husband. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression disorder, is a mental illness that causes individuals to experience mood swings- episodes of elevated or agitated mood known as mania, alternating with episodes of depression. These feelings of mania can also involve irritability and impulsive or reckless decision-making – in which Patrick Jr. displays a variety of examples throughout the movie. One of which was when he displayed a quick manic episode in the doctor’s

small town life. Smith quoted that, "She was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe". As a single mother, Vickie worked multiple low paying jobs like: Wal-Mart, and then became an exotic dancer. Exotic dancing was done under various assumed names for which she became known as Anna Nicole Smith. While dancing Anna scoped out older men and eventually tied the knot with an 89-year-old, oil tycoon (J. Howard). Anna only 26 years old claimed she was in love and age did not matter, However, Anna showed no love

The work chosen was “Silver Linings Playbook” by David O’Russell and Matthew Quick. The reason this why I chose this work was because a character in the movie has the same condition I have, which is Bipolar disorder. The movie portrayed a young man, Pat, coping with his challenges of this mental disorder. People with bipolar disorder, also known as borderline personality disorder go through intense emotional changes that are very different from their usual mood and behavior. These changes affect

Thing That Lady Macbeth Might Have William Shakespeare had tragedy in Macbeth. Macbeth had been a Thane, which is a noble. Lady Macbeth wants to be Queen of Scotland in Macbeth wants to be king no matter what it takes Macbeth was going be king an Lady Macbeth was going to be queen. Lady Macbeth was a very strong mind person. Lady Macbeth surfed the effect of bipolar and schizophrenia. First lady Macbeth showed bipolar disorder by showing the symptoms of inflated or self-esteem grandiosity. Lady

episode. Bipolar two disorder also must display at least one major depressive episode. From the information from the movie, Pat didn’t really display a depressive episode. Pat demonstrates several symptoms of Bipolar one disorder, many falling into the mania category. His manic episodes cause a great deal of distress in his life. Before the incident with his wife’s lover even occurred, Pat was having severe delusions. He told the school board that his wife and the history teacher were plotting against