Understanding Mental Illness
Bipolar Disorder
A serious disorder characterized by extreme highs and lows, bipolar
disorder can be managed with proper diagnosis and treatment.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder also known as manic depression, is a severe
psychological mood disorder that causes extreme shifts in mood,
attitude, behaviour and energy. The hallmarks of bipolar disorder are
manic highs where a person experiences heightened energy and mood, and
depressive lows, where they experience low energy and sadness or
irritability.
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health issue that requires the
proper treatment in order to be managed.
Bipolar Disorder symptoms include :
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Extreme highs or optimism, followed by despair, sadness, or
emotional numbness.
- Severe irritability and/or angry outbursts.
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False, unrealistic, and inflated beliefs about one’s talents and
capacities.
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Increased rates of speech and thought. Trouble focusing on tasks or
concentrating
- Diminished capacity for judgment.
- Uncontrolled spontaneity without a sense of consequences.
- Delusional thinking and hallucinations.
- Inability to experience pleasure.
- Tiredness.
- Physical and mental laziness.
- Appetite/weight changes.
- Trouble sleeping or extreme changes in sleep patterns.
- Inability to remember things.
- Feelings of despair, insignificance, unworthiness, or guilt.
- Preoccupation with death or ideas about suicide.
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