What are the symptoms of manic depression

Many people have heard of depression, but don’t know much about bipolar disorder. What we are experiencing today is the symptom of mania and depression. Patients may show emotional instability and even have extreme reactions. Therefore, when facing corresponding patients, we should get along with them in harmony and avoid conflicts. If you experience an attack, you must go to the hospital for treatment to avoid worsening of the condition. So, what are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?

1. Emotional surge

This is the main primary symptom of a manic state. The patient appears relaxed, happy, enthusiastic, optimistic, cheerful and carefree. This emotion is joyful and quite contagious. When symptoms are mild, they may not be considered abnormal, but people who know him/her well can see the abnormality of this manifestation. Sometimes the patient may also be irritable, especially when someone accuses him of being arrogant or having unrealistic ideas. It manifests as not being able to tolerate any opposing opinions, getting angry over trivial matters, and in serious cases, destructive or aggressive behavior. Patients often appear cheerful early in the illness and irritable later in the illness.

2. Thoughts Run Wild

It refers to the acceleration of the speed of thought association. The patient speaks more, talks a lot, and talks incessantly, and feels that the speed of his speech is far behind his thoughts. Sometimes phonetic associations may appear and change with the context. On the basis of the high mood, people may feel good about themselves, speak exaggeratedly, and talk ramblingly. They may think that they are talented, come from a famous family, are powerful, wealthy, and have supernatural powers. This may reach the level of delusion. Sometimes, based on the exaggeration, they may have victimization experiences or delusions, but the content is generally not absurd, the duration is relatively short, and hallucinations are rare.

3. Enhanced will and behavior

That is, coordinated psychomotor excitement. Their inner experiences and behaviors, behavioral responses and external environment are relatively unified. In contrast to psychomotor retardation, patients become more active, sociable and love to join in the fun. They get along well with people right away, like to joke and play pranks, are nosy and busy all day. But he always starts off well but ends badly and achieves nothing. Even though you feel you can accomplish anything and have a very smart brain, you cannot concentrate on one thing, so you fail more often than you accomplish anything. He does things without careful consideration and sometimes causes trouble everywhere.

4. Associated symptoms

Patients with manic episodes often have a reduced need for sleep and run around all day without feeling tired. The patient has hypersexuality and may occasionally engage in sexual behavior when he or she is in the mood. Sometimes, he or she may be overly affectionate, hugging, and kissing others in inappropriate situations without regard for other people's feelings. Excessive activity and insufficient intake may lead to collapse and exhaustion, especially in the elderly or infirm patients. Hypomanic patients may retain a certain degree of self-awareness, while manic patients generally have incomplete self-awareness.