Bipolar disorder
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Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder characterized by shifts in mood and energy levels. People with bipolar disorder experience periods of feeling overly happy and energized (mania or hypomania) and periods of feeling very sad and sluggish (depression). The main categories of bipolar disorder are mania, hypomania, and depression. Mania involves excessive happiness, irritability, and poor decision making. Hypomania describes milder manic symptoms. Depression is characterized by feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and lack of pleasure.
Bipolar disorder
- 3. What is Bipolar disorder ??? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
- 4. People who have bipolar disorder can have periods in which they feel overly happy and energized and other periods of feeling very sad, hopeless, and sluggish. In between those periods, they usually feel normal. You can think of the highs and the lows as two "poles" of mood, which is why it's called "bipolar" disorder
- 6. Main categories of BIPOLAR DISORDER
- 7. M A N I A
- 8. What is MANIA??? The word MANIA" describes the times when someone feels overly excited and confident. These feelings can also involve irritability and impulsive or reckless decision-making.
- 9. Symptoms of MANIA! Excessive happiness, hopefulness, and excitement. Rapid speech and poor concentration. Insomnia. High sex drive. Making grand and unrealistic plans. Showing poor judgment. Substance abuse. Hyperactive.
- 11. HYPOMANI A!
- 12. 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.
- 14. What is DEPRESSION..? It describes the times when the person feels very sad or depressed. A condition in which someone never has manic or hypomanic episodes. Most people with bipolar disorder spend more time in depressed phases than in manic phases.
- 15. Symptoms of DEPRESSION..! Anhedonia. Hypochondriasis. Recurrent thoughts of suicide. Feeling worthless and hopeless. Trouble concentrating Trouble making decisions Irritability Insomnia. Sudden change in appetite .