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Bipolar disorder is one of several medical conditions or depressive disorders commonly called manic depression. It is a mental disorder that often affects to the thoughts, perceptions, feelings and behavior. It also affects how a person feels physically and is known clinically as psychosomatic presentations.
Most times, a person with manic depression experience mood swings that change from high to low and vice versa in different degrees of severity. Both extremes of bipolar disorder are mania and depression.
The following are signs of depression:
* Sleeping much more than usual
* Tired all the time, but unable to sleep
* Refusing to get out of bed for days
* Having series of uncontrollable crying
* No longer interested in things they once enjoyed
* Not paying attention to daily responsibilities
* Feeling helpless, hopeless, or without value for an extended period of time
* Not able to make simple decisions
* Suicidal tendency
The following are signs of mania:
* "High" feeling that you can do anything, even something very risky
* Sleep is not feeling tired and yet little
* Talking very fast and jumping from one idea to another
* The increase in sexual desire and enter the risky sexual behavior
* Have an unrealistic belief, experiencing hallucinations or delusions
* Very goal oriented and act impulsively, such as overspending, impulsive sex, business investment and impulsive.
Hypo mania is a less extreme manic episode. Hypo mania does not include hallucinations or delusions, but a person can still exhibit hypo manic behavior inappropriate.
If you are not aware of the limbs, you may think you have finally overcome his depression when you become a hobby, only to realize later that this state is also exaggerated part of being bipolar.
The four basic types of bipolar disorder
1. Bipolar I – It is mainly characterized by manic or mixed episodes lasting at least a week. Severe manic symptoms need immediate hospital care. Symptoms of depression or mania should be a major change from the normal behavior of the individual.
2. Bipolar II – is defined by a pattern of depressive episodes change one and one with hypo manic episodes, but this time not full-fledged manic or mixed episodes.
3. Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (BP-NOS) – This stage is diagnosed when a person has symptoms of bipolar disorder that do not meet diagnostic criteria for either bipolar I or II. The person may have few symptoms, being diagnosed with bipolar I or II and most of the time the symptoms did not last long enough.
4. Cyclothymic disorder (cyclothymia) – This is a mild form of disorder bipolar. People with cyclothymia has episodes of mania hiccups that often change from one side to another with mild depression for at least two years. But the symptoms do not meet The requirements of any other type of bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder is not a sign of a character flaw or weakness, which is a medical problem serious condition requiring medical treatment as any other condition. Understanding the real reason behind this illness is a great help for our loved ones or others who suffered the same condition.
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