PSYCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Comorbidity, Mood Swing, Antipsychotic
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Bipolar disorder - if you"ve ever had a manic episode the majority of people who have had a manic episode have either had some form of depressions or in the future will, but possible to have manias only. Mixed episode of mania and depression - when suicide rate goes up astronomically. Not sad, you"re glad, grandiose, things feel good, there can be expansive euphoric mood or there can be irritability in kids irritability may be a stronger sign of mania than grandiose euphoria. As an episode ramps up, the person doesn"t need as much sleep lack of sleep may fuel the mania. Your engine revs you talk all the time but it"s hard to put the brakes on, flight of ideas/racing thoughts. As mania progresses into the middle stages, your judgement starts to get clouded. After the first mania, the odds you will have another or depression later in life is. Cyclothymia - on spectrum of bipolar disorder.
