What are symptoms of bipolar disorder?

Many: Several and might include depression, mood swings, and mania. Online questionnaires are available for the public. Check the mood disorder questionnaire at: www.Dbsalliance.Org/pdfs/mdq.Pdfsimilar bring it to your md for further instructions.

Bipolar disorder: Bipolar disorder may manifest with either manic / hypo manic or depressed states. Symptoms of depression typically include sadness, loss of interest, guilty feelings, decreased attention span, disturbed sleep and appetite. Manic symptoms include expansive, euphoric mood, grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, increased energy level. The presentation is not as clear in kids.

Bipolar: Abnormally elevated, irritable or expansive moods alternating with depressed moods with neurovegetative signs/symptoms, sufficient to interfere with daily functioning or cause distress.

Manic dep.: Manic phases of elation and heightened energy with less need for sleep, alternating with episodes of depression with lack of energy, sadness & changes in appetite/concentration/sleep, along with morbid thoughts.

Mania and depression: Bipolar disorder includes both depression and mania (bipolar 1) or hypo mania (bipolar 2). Bipolar depression is characterized by loss of interest, motivation, and energy, hypersomnia and hopelessness. Mania is characterized by increased energy, decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and sometimes irritability. Hypo mania is is the same as mania only to a lesser degree.

Bipolar: Bipolar I and bipolar II, In the first, manic phases are more severe, and in the second, depressive phases are more severe. There is also cyclothymia which is a low grade version of bipolar disorder in general, where mood swings are not as severe in either direction, manic or depressive.