Bipolar

 Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings, including high emotional levels (manic or hypomania) and low levels (depression).

When depressed, you may feel sadness and despair and lose interest and enjoyment in most activities. When you feel mania or hypomania (not as extreme as mania), you may feel euphoric, energetic, or unusually frustrated.

The mood swings that occur can affect your sleep, the energy you have, activity, judgment, behavior, and the ability to think clearly and many things.

Episodes of mood swings occur rarely or can occur more than once a year. Most people experience some emotional symptoms during an episode, but some may not.

Bipolar ailment generally runs in families: eighty to ninety percent of people with bipolar ailment have a relative with bipolar ailment or depression. Environmental elements which include stress, sleep disruption, and tablets and alcohol may also cause temper episodes in prone human beings. Though the unique reasons for bipolar ailment in the mind are unclear, an imbalance of mind chemical substances is assumed to cause dysregulated mental activity. The common age of onset is 25 years old.

 People with bipolar I ailment regularly produce other intellectual problems which include tension problems, substance use problems, and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity ailment (ADHD). The danger of suicide is drastically better amongst human beings with bipolar I ailment than amongst the overall population.

 

Symptoms

Types of bipolar disorder, they can include mania or hypomania and depression. Symptoms can cause unpredictable changes in mood and behavior, leading to serious distress and difficulty in life.

 Bipolar I disorder:

There is at least one manic episode that can occur before or after a hypomanic or major depressive episode. In some cases, mania can cause a loss of reality (mental illness).

Bipolar II disorder:

You have experienced at least one major depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode, but you have never experienced a manic episode. Cyclothymia.

 They have had hypomanic and depressive seizures (although not as severe as major depression) for at least two years, or, for children and teenagers, one year. Other types.

These include bipolar and related disorders caused, for example, by certain drugs or alcohol, or by diseases such as Cushing's disease, multiple sclerosis or stroke.  Bipolar II disorder is not a mild form of bipolar I disorder, but it is a diagnosis. Manic episodes of bipolar I disorder can be severe and dangerous, but people with bipolar II disorder can be depressed longer and can cause serious disability.

 Bipolar disorder can occur at any age but is usually diagnosed in the teens or early twenties.

Symptoms vary from one person to another, and they can change over time.

 Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition, but you can manage mood swings and other symptoms by following a treatment plan. In most cases, bipolar disorder is treated with medication and psychological counseling (psychotherapy).

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If you know/ have someone in your life who had bipolar disorder, please know that your support is so much needed in this case, and it will absloutely help.