PSY 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Risky Sexual Behavior, Bipolar Disorder, Hypomania
22 Sep 2016
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Decreased need for sleep don"t need sleep for a few days only need to sleep for a couple of hours and still feel fine. Might not make sense and thoughts are disconnected racing thoughts increased goal directed activity someone who works on wall street needing to complete a painting. Bipolar 1: at least one manic episode. And then technically you have it for the rest of your life and are in remission. Don"t need a low: mania causes impairment, can"t be something else (like meth) Bipolar has a fluxuation and that"s what is different. Bipolar 2: at least one depressive episode that lasted 2 weeks, at least one hypomanic episode that lasted 4 days, no history of mania, not something else (psychologically or medically) Cyclothymic: numerous periods of hypomania (but not hypomanic episode, numerous periods of depression symptoms (not mde, persist for at least 2 months at a time.
