What is Bipolar?
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Bipolar is a mental disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. It can be treated with medication. The symptoms are sudden mood swings from extremely happy to terribly depressed. Talking nonstop for hours and hours. Yelling and screaming, jumping up and down. It's total insanity during the time a person is having an episode. Days without sleep.
My boyfriend is Bipolar and about 3 times a year he has an episode. I go and stay at a hotel to avoid the extreme verbal abuse and raging. It usually lasts about 5 days until all his energy is gone.
it's when your mood changes drastically all the time... it;s a chronic illness
It is a mood disorder.
Briefly it is a change in emotional state from depressed to extremely happy. The depressed state lasts longer than the happy state.
There is a full medical definition at NIMH. Search on the internet.
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basically it is chemical imbalance effecting moods,and to varying degrees behavior. Severe cases can suffer from halucinations with vivid details. Theese people are treatable with medications if they remain consistent and vigilant with their care.
Bipolar is a mood disorder, as you have heard, that is a chemical imbalance in the brain, where you have quick differences in mood. I have three bipolar friends. if you have many of these you might have a bipolar disorder The main moods are Mania and Depressive. I have depression so when my friends are having a time where they are acting manic, we don't get along well.
Signs of mania (ups)
-- I feel like I'm on top of the world.
-- I feel powerful. I can do anything I want, nothing can stop me
-- I have lots of energy.
-- I don't seem to need much sleep.
-- I feel restless all the time.
-- I feel really mad.
-- I have a lot of sexual energy.
-- I can't focus on anything for very long.
-- I sometimes can’t stop talking and I talk really fast.
-- I'm spending lots of money on things I don't need and can't afford.
-- Friends tell me that I've been acting differently. They tell me that I'm starting fights, talking louder, and getting more angry.
Signs of depression (downs)
-- I am really sad most of the time.
-- I don't enjoy doing the things I've always enjoyed doing.
-- I don't sleep well at night and am very restless.
-- I am always tired. I find it hard to get out of bed.
-- I don't feel like eating much.
--I feel like eating all the time.
-- I have lots of aches and pains that don't go away.
-- I have little to no sexual energy.
-- I find it hard to focus and am very forgetful.
-- I am mad at everybody and everything.
-- I feel upset and fearful, but can't figure out why.
-- I don't feel like talking to people.
-- I feel like there isn't much point to living, nothing good is going to happen to me.
-- I don't like myself very much. I feel bad most of the time.
--I think about death a lot. I even think about how I might kill myself.
Other signs of bipolar disorder
__I go back and forth between feeling really "up" and feeling really "down."
---My ups and downs cause problems at work and at home.
Bipolar, also known as Manic Depression is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum that ranges from debilitating depression to unbridled mania. Individuals suffering from bipolar disorder typically experience fluid states of mania, hypomania or what is referred to as a mixed state in conjunction with depressive episodes. These clinical states typically alternate with a normal range of mood. Log on to halfofus.com to find out more, and also listen to Pete Wentz tell his story about his depression and suicide.
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