For example those with bipolar II, experience what’s called hypomania (milder episodes) verses experiencing mania. They alternate that with depressive episodes. In other instances manic and depressive symptoms can also occur at the same time, meaning the person is experiencing a mixed episode.
Bipolar Depression / Rapid cycling
Symptoms of highs can look like:
* Greater than normal physical and mental activity and energy
* Heightened mood, inflated optimism and self-confidence and self-importance
* Easily irritable
* Very aggressive behavior
* Declining need for sleep without signs of fatigue
* Extravagant delusions
* Racing speech, racing thoughts and ideas
* Impulsiveness, poor judgment, distractibility, reckless behavior
* Denial of anything being wrong
Symptoms of depression can look like:
* Very sad, anxious, and empty mood
* Loss of interest in preferred activities
* Sleeping too much, feeling run down
* Anger, overreaction to criticism
* Feelings of not being able to reach desired expectations
* Difficulty thinking straight, cannot concentrate, memory trouble and unable to make decisions
* Continual symptoms of physical ailments that don’t respond to regular treatment
* Suicidal thinking
For more information please visit one of the many informative websites out there, including www. bipolarsymptoms.org
It’s easy to say, don’t let yourself be a victim. But who really asked to be? No one would raise their hand for that. Mental disorders are not a preference or a choice. Loving someone and enduring their skewed outlook is no walk in the park. It hurts. While many physical traumas are curable and you can physically heal. Mentally it’s not that easy. You can survive, but neither of you can do it alone…
—posted by Eliza Barnett
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