Mental health is very fragile. A little fatigue, a malfunction in the genetic code or another reason is enough for the human psyche to stagger. Of course, this is far from happening to everyone.
But the trouble with most mental deviations is that they are almost invisible in the early stages. Each of us experienced mood swings. A feeling of falling in love or bad weather, fatigue, excessive loads several times a day can throw us from a state of euphoria to deep depression. But did you know that these very symptoms are the first signs of a disease called bipolar disorder.
What it is?
This is a mental illness, a deviation that manifests itself in a number of affective states, affecting a sharp change in emotions, the appearance of manic states, inhibition, or, conversely, disinhibition. Affective state - as psychiatrists call short-term, but very pronounced emotional processes during which a person is simply not able to control their own emotions or behavior. A person who has the first signs of bipolar disorder is capable of staying out of a depressed mood for days, or, on the contrary, “jumping” several dozens of times a day from causeless joy to deep sadness.
In such people, performance can sharply increase or decrease, and primitive instincts become very pronounced.
How to determine that a person has bipolar disorder?
What is this condition, which is already a disease, can be determined by the symptoms that appear in most patients.
- Together with constant and unpredictable fluctuations in the emotional background, patients experience a loss of a sense of time. Any condition in which the patient is (euphoria, depression, sadness, increased performance, etc.) seems to be eternal. This leads to a reassessment of one's own strength, exhaustion.
- Rapid readaptation is another symptom by which bipolar disorder can be suspected. What it is? Re-adaptation is a person’s ability to conform to other people 's ideas, the loss of a strategy of one’s own behavior, an increased desire to please others. The desire to behave in an unusual way does not fill the inner void and leads to the development of a disease called bipolar disorder. What is this painful, abnormal condition, and not a trait, says the appearance of characteristic symptoms.
Symptoms of the disease
Most often it is:
- Increased irritability and irritability, acceleration of speech pace, inability to concentrate on one topic.
- Overly aggressive, annoying, angry or provocative mood.
- Inability to assess your true condition: physical, financial, mental, sexual, etc.
Because of this, patients who are diagnosed with “bipolar disorder” (that this is really a disease, they also can’t understand) become overly wasteful, unreasonably self-confident, and their libido increases many times, while the need for sleep and food is reduced.
Some people wonder: are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder synonymous ? Schizophrenia is a disease that can completely destroy the perception of the world. It is accompanied by hallucinations, while with bipolar disorder such symptoms are not observed.