Bipolar Depression
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- Bipolar Depression
- Features
- Affects approx 1.2% of the popn.
- Equally common in men and women.
- Typically emerges between 18 and 24.
- People with it have an increased risk of suicide.
- Symptoms vary widely in pattern, severity and frequency.
- Average of an 8 year delay before a diagnosis is made.
- Found in all races, ethnic groups and social classes.
- Women with it have more depressive and mixed episodes than men with it do.
- Its the 6th leading cause of disability in the world.
- Symptoms
- Different types
- Bipolar 1: at least one manic episode followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes.
- Bipolar 2: at least one major depressive episode lasting at least 2 weeks and at least one hypomanic episode lasting at least 4 days but no manic episode.
- Cyclothymic disorder: at least 2 years (1 in children&teens) of many periods of hypomania and depressive symptoms.
- Manic/hypomanic symptoms
- Grandiosity
- unrealistic sense of superiority, inflated self esteem
- less need for sleep
- unusual talkativeness
- persistent elevated mood/irritability
- racing thoughts
- distractability
- increased goal-directed activity
- doing high risk activities
- Grandiosity
- Major depressive symptoms
- persistent low mood, feeling sad, empty, hopeless, tearful
- reduced interest in all activities
- significant weight loss/gain or inc/dec in appetite.
- insomnia/sleeping excessively.
- restlessness/slowed behaviour
- fatigue/loss of energy
- inappropriate guilt
- unable to concentrate/indecisiveness
- thoughts of death/suicide
- Different types
- Features
- Others
- psychosis: severe mania/depression that results in detachment from reality inc delusions and hallucinations
- catatonia: not reacting to your environment, holding body in unusual ways, not speaking, mimicking another persons speech or movements
- mixed features: criteria for (hypo)manic but having some symptoms for depression at the same time
- includes agitation, trouble sleeping, change in appetite, psychosis, thoughts of suicide.
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