Blog #3

I've looked into some sources regarding my topic of Bipolar Disorder in reference to what society's perception of it is and how it effects diagnosis. In my search for sources some of the key words I used were "Bipolar Disorder", of course, but I also narrowed the search down by including the words "perception" and "diagnosis". Using these modifiers helped to narrow the search quite a bit and made the number of sources a little less daunting. But still there are several thousand articles regarding Bipolar Disorder. I'm not necessarily overwhelmed by the amount of sources, in fact, I'm sort of glad there are so many different places to learn about the disorder because I feel like I'll probably have an easy time finding different studies with a wide variety of opinions and information. 

Most of the approaches I've found in regards to Bipolar Disorder are those addressing the facts of the situation. By facts I mean statistic type studies like for example the number of Bipolar people in America. But I also found quite a few sources that focus on the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and how it's being treated. 

I sorted through the sources without much discipline or guideline. I avoided articles with titles similar to the ones I had previously opened and kept an open mind throughout, doing my best to pay attention to anything I had yet to read. Everything can be useful, it's just matter of finding out how to use it. 

I did not actually learn much new information in regards to my topic, but that's only because I myself am Bipolar so I already know quite a bit about it.