Extra dimensions in all aspects of life-the meaning of life with bipolar disorder

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-169

  Rusner, Marie ^a,b   Carlsson, Gunilla ^a   Brunt, David ^b   Nyström, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Caring science; Extra dimensions; Holistic understanding; Lifeworld research; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349850932     PISSN: 17482623     EISSN: 17482631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482620902864194     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn). American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC.
2. Baker, J. A. (2001). Bipolar disorders: An overview of current literature. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 8, 437-441.
3. Baker, J. A. (2002). The service and illness experiences described by users of the mood swings network. Journal of Mental Health, 11(4), 453-63.
4. Bauer, M., Grof, P., Rasgon, N., Bschor, T., Glenn, T., & Whybrow, PC. (2006). Temporal relation between sleep and rest and mood in patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 8, 160-167.
5. Cutler, C. G. (2001). Self-care agency and symptom management in patients treated for mood disorder. Archives-of-Psychiatric-Nursing, 15(1), 24-31.
6. Dahlberg, K., Dahlberg, H., & Nystrom, M. (2008). Reflective lifeworld research. Lund: Studentlitteratur.
7. Dogan, S., & Sabanciogullari, S. (2003). The effects of patient education in lithium therapy on quality of life and compliance. Archives-of-Psychiatric-Nursing, 17(6), 270-275.
8. Elgie, R., & Morselli, P. L. (2007). Social functioning in bipolar patients: The perception and perspective of patients, relatives and advocacy organizations-a review. Bipolar Disorders, 9, 144-157.
9. Gadamer, H-G. (2004). Truth and Method (3rd edn). New York: The Continuum Publishing Group.
10. Ghaemi, S. N. (2007). Feeling and time: The phenomenology of mood disorders, depressive realism and existential psychotherapy. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33, 122-130.
11. Goodwin, G. (2000). Perspective for clinical research on bipolar disorders in the new millennium. Bipolar Disorders, 2, 302-304.
12. Goossens, P. J. J., Knoppert-Van der Klein, E. A. M., Kroon, H., & Van Achterberg, T. (2007). Self-reported care needs of outpatients with a bipolar disorder in the Netherlands. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 14, 549-557.
13. Hilty, D. M., Brady, K. T., & Hales, R. E. (1999). A review of bipolar disorder among adults. Psychiatric Services, 50, 201-213.
14. Inder, M. L., Crowe, M. T., Moor, S., Luty, S. E., Carter, J. D., & Joyce, P. R. (2008). "I actually don't know who I am": The impact of bipolar disorder on development of self. Psychiatry, 71(2), 123-133.
15. Inskip, H. M., Harris, E. C., & Barraclough, B. (1998). Lifetime risk of suicide for affective disorders, alcoholism and schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 15, 35-37.
16. Jose, T. T., Bladdery, A., & Mathew, B. (2003). A study of the factors associated with compliance or non-compliance to lithium therapy among the patients with bipolar affective disorder. Nursing Journal of India, January, 94(1), 9-11.
17. Johansson, H., & Eklund, M. (2003). Patients' opinion on what constitutes good psychiatric care. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 17, 339-346.
18. Jonsson, P. D., Wijk, H., Skarsater, I., & Danielsson, E. (2008). Persons living with Bipolar Disorder-Their view of the illness and the future. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29(11), 1217-1236.
19. Karlsson, B. (2004). Mani som fenomen og lidelse: Pasient- og personalerfaringer som grunnlagfor kunnskapsutvikling ipsykiatrisk sykepleie. Oslo: Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo.
20. Leboyer, M., Henry, C, Paillere-Martinot, M.-L., & Bellivier, F. (2005). Age at onset in bipolar affective disorders: A review. Bipolar Disorders, 7, 111-118.
21. Lim, L., Nathan, P., O'Brien-Malone, A., & Williams, S. (2004). A qualitative approach to identifying psychosocial issues faced by bipolar patients. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 192, 810-817.
22. McCandless, F, & Sladen, C. (2003). Sexual health and women with bipolar disorder. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 44(1), 42-8.
23. Michalak, E. E., Yatham, L. N., Maxwell, V., Hale, S., & Lam, R. W. (2007). The impact of bipolar disorder upon work functioning; a qualitative analysis. Bipolar Disorders, 9, 126-143.
24. Morrissey, M. V. (1998). The impact of diagnosis of manic depression: Implications for mental health nurses. Psychiatric Care, 5(4), 143-146.
25. Olofsson, B. (2000). Use of coercion in psychiatric care as narrated by patients, nurses and physicians. Doctoral dissertation, Umeå University, Sweden.
26. Perry, A., Tarrier, N., Morriss, R., McCarthy, E., & Limb, K. (1999). Randomised controlled trial of efficacy of teaching patients with bipolar disorder to identify early symptoms of relapse and obtain treatment. British Medical Journal, 318, 149-153.
27. Pollack, L. E. (1993a). Content analysis of groups for inpatients with Bipolar disorder. Applied Nursing Research, 6, 19-27.
28. Pollack, L. E. (1993b). Self-perceptions of interpersonal and sexual functioning in women with mood disorders: A preliminary report. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 14, 201-218.
29. Pollack, L. (1996). Inpatients with bipolar disorder: Their quest to understand. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental health services, 34(6), 19-24, 41-2.
30. Pollack, L., & Cramer, R. D. (2000). Perceptions of problems in people hospitalized for bipolar disorder: Implications for patient education. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 21(8), 765-778.
31. Pollack, L., Harvin, S., & Cramer, R. D. (2001). Inpatient group therapies for people with bipolar disorder: Comparison of a self-management and an interactional model. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 7(6), 179-187.
32. Redfield Jamison, K. (1995). An unquiet mind. New York: Random House.
33. Reinares, M., Colom, F., Sanchez-Moreno, J., Torrent, C, Martínez-Aran, A., Comes, M., Goikolea, JM., Benabarre, A., Salamero, M., & Vieta, E. (2008). Impact of caregiver group psycho-education on the course and outcome of bipolar patients in remission: A randomized controlled trial. Bipolar Disorders, 10, 511-519.
34. Sheppard, G., & Hill, R. G. (1996). Manic depression: Do people receive adequate support? Nursing Times, 92, 42-44.
35. SFS (2003). The Swedish Code of statutes. The legislation on ethical aspects of research involving humans, 2003:460. The Swedish Government.
36. Toombs, K. (1993). The meaning of illness-a phenomenological account of the different perspectives of physician and patients. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
37. Tse, S., & Walsh, A. (2001). How does work work for people with bipolar affective disorder? Occupational Therapy International, 8(3), 210-225.
38. Tugrul, K. (2003). The nurse's role in the assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder. Nursing, Journal-of-the-American-Psychiatric-Nurses-Association, 9(6), 180-186.
39. WHO (2007). International statistical classification of diseases, 10th revision. World Health Organization.