What
is bipolar order?
Bipolar
is a word that means two extremes. This term describes moody or mood swings,
but this colloquial term is different from bipolar disorder. It changes person
activity levels, person personality, changing a person's sleeping pattern,
changing the way of thinking, and subsequently changing a person's behavior for
the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder worldwide. Life splits between
two realities elation and depression.
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Bipolar
I
Bipolar
disorder I, called manic depression, is a serious mental disorder
that causes a person to have climactic changes in sentiments, mood, and energy
levels, moving from extreme lows to extreme highs. However, these shifts do not
happen moment to moment; they usually happen over several days, a week, or more
with symptoms of that elevated, expansive mood. There is a list of elevated,
expansive symptoms. They are important because a person needs at least three of
those for those seven days.
Distractibility
The person cannot sit still, and they cannot pay attention at all and cannot finish
any task at all. The person is completely distracted.
Impulsivity
It
is so much that the person does things that he is not thinking through. The
person gets himself into trouble potentially. The person makes rash and impulsive
decisions and harms himself.
Grandiosity
Grandiosity
means that the person has inflated self-worth. This case can get so bad into
the realm of psychosis. Some people with this think they are superheroes or
gods. It can also be lower.
Sleep
issues
People
with mania tend not to need sleep. So people could not sleep in a whole week,
and they are functioning and are okay with it.
Rapid
and Pressure speech
The person speaks without thinking, and there are almost One hundred topics when
they speak for 5 minutes, and that does not even make sense. The speech is
pressured. The person needs at least three of above mention symptoms for
straight seven days, most of the day, every day. That is the bulk of criteria
for a mania to get diagnosed as bipolar-I.
What
do people do not pay attention to?
Several
things are important, and people usually do not pay attention to them, but they
are really important:
Many
things like thyroid issues can cause mania, Traumatic brain injury; Temporal
lobe seizures can do it.
All
types of medical issues can do it. Medicines
can do it: for example, Corticosteroids, anabolic-androgenic steroids,
and levodopa.
Many
people misinterpret it because they think if a person has a depressive episode
for bipolar-I, it is not necessary.
If
a person has had one depressive episode in their entire life, then he can be
bipolar-I.
Bipolar II
This
bipolar II is similar to manic depression and is called Hypomania,
except it is less severe. The only main difference between bipolar-I and
bipolar-II is the length of time. Bipolar II stays for four days, unlike
bipolar-I, which stays for seven days. In this disorder, personal feelings are
extremely down. It is an abnormally revved-up state of mind, and a person's
energy level is higher than normal. Patients of bipolar II will have
grandiosity, flight of ideas, fast speech, Etc. However, symptoms are not as
severe. Another main difference is that there is a depressive phase. The
depressive phase fits into the criteria of a major depressive episode. The
person does not like to do things he usually does, sleeping a lot, or too
little, i.e., hypersomnia or insomnia, change in appetite, maybe be suicidal. These
are the criteria for depression, the depressed phase of Hypomania.
What
do people think about bipolar?
People
think that bipolar is like a wave. It is up and down, and up and down. It is
not the case at all. Patients with bipolar disorder can be manic go back to
euthymia, which is normal, for months.
Cyclothymic
Disorder
Cyclothymic
disorder is a mild version of bipolar disorder. In this disorder, adults must
have at least two years, and children and teenagers must have at least one year
of may periods of hypomania symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms though
less severe than major depression. There are many potential biological and
genetic causes for bipolar.
How
to manage bipolar disorder?
The mainstay of treatment of the bipolar disorder is medication, but some things
can help patients prevent or manage symptoms of bipolar disorder in addition to
medications, not instead of medications.
Identify
triggers
Identify
things that trigger an episode, either an episode of depression or mania. For
example, it can be work stress, arguments Etc.
Keep
records of mood swings
Make
a mood diary and record daily mood—no need to buy a fancy one. Just use any
notebooks from home.
Establish
a daily routine
People
with bipolar disorder are particularly sensitive to changes in structure and
routine. Should make time for going to bed and all things.
Have
an activity plan
Making
an activity plan will help the patient to be busy and will stay active during
the day. These activities keep a person's body moving; activity and movement
are improvements, behavioral therapy.
The
above mention are some ways to manage the disorder. If you have bipolar
disorder, you must contact the doctor and have medication before it becomes
severe.
This article is written by Juwairia Malyk, one of the contributors at the School of Literature.
