Living with bipolar disorder can mean experiencing everything from intense emotional highs and lows to challenges with energy, focus, and more. Understanding your symptoms is essential to managing your mental health, as they can be complex and vary from
Doctors used to prescribe these medicines as a short-term treatment to control agitation or psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions that can happen during mania or severe depression. Today, they are increasingly being used for other symptoms (such as agitation or insomnia) along with ...
"Hypomania" describes milder symptoms of mania, in which someone does not have delusions or hallucinations, and their high symptoms do not interfere with their everyday life. The word "depressive" describes the times when the person feels depressed. Those symptoms are the same as those described...
During bipolar mania, you may feel abnormally upbeat, jumpy or wired. Bipolar mania symptoms also include an exaggerated sense of self-confidence & euphoria
Introduction: The presence of psychotic symptoms is highest during acute episodes of bipolar mania. There is no evidence base regarding the implications of psychosis in the prognosis of bipolar disorder, despite common assumption that their occurrence reflects greater disease sever...
Human mood disorder risk gene Synaptotagmin-14 contributes to mania-like behaviors in mice Yue Zhang Chu-Yi Zhang Xiao Xiao Research18 Feb 2025Molecular Psychiatry P: 1-12 Examining the relationships between self-stigma, loneliness, depressive symptoms, and suicidal ideation among people with bipolar...
Adj.1.bipolar- of or relating to manic depressive illness 2. bipolar- of, pertaining to, or occurring in both polar regions; "the bipolar distribution of certain species" 3. bipolar- having two poles unipolar- having a single pole
The diagnosis of bipolar disorder is based on the patient’s history and clinical course. Other conditions to be considered include the following: Epilepsy Fahr disease Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Medications (eg, antidepressants can propel a patient into mania; other medications may...
“This may be particularly important if medication is going to be used for treating mood or behavioral symptoms in the child, because some medications might increase the risk of developing mania or psychotic symptoms in someone who is already at very high risk for developing bipolar disorder. ...
may be used on a long-term basis and can helpalleviateor even eliminate symptoms. Long-term pharmacological therapy often is supported with psychotherapy orgroup therapy.Shock therapyis reserved for persons whose mania or depression remains severe despite other forms of treatment and for women who ...