What Are The Symptoms Of Manic Depression?

By Sheila Wilson

One mental illness that causes a mood disturbance is manic depression which is also called bipolar disorder. Symptoms Of manic depression can range from mild to severe, but must interfere with a person's life to support a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Symptoms Of manic depression affect the person cognitively, emotionally, physically, and behaviorally. Weird ability, euphoria, and depression are common emotional symptoms of manic depression.

Some physical symptoms of manic depression are fatigue, changes in appetite, changes in sex drive, a decreased need for sleep, and fidgeting. The fidgeting that is associated with episodes of depression is called psychomotor agitation by mental health professionals. Depression can also cause the persons actions to be slower than usual which is referred to as psychomotor retardation.

During manic and depressive episodes, the person can experience increases or decreases in sex drive and appetite. Some people make experience increased appetite or decreased appetite during a depressive episode. Manic episodes often cause an increase in sex drive.

During a manic episode, the person may not become tired as usual and may feel as if they do not need to sleep. Depression can cause a person to have insomnia or to sleep more than usual.

Manic depression causes many cognitive symptoms. During depression, the person may have perceptions of worthlessness and have difficulty concentrating. An increased focus on goal oriented activities, flight of ideas or racing thoughts, and distractibility are common cognitive symptoms of manic depression during a manic episode.

Manic episodes cause behavioral changes like seeking pleasure without consideration to the consequences. During a manic episode, a person may use drugs, have sexual indiscretions, or have spending sprees even if the person would normally never do those things.

Unlike people experiencing mania, people in depressive episodes may not feel pleasure. They may lose interest in activities that are normally pleasurable.

Manic depression can cause psychotic symptoms. Hallucinations and delusions caused by manic depression are related to the current mood disturbance of the individual.

Mania may cause delusions of being superior to humans. Depression can cause voices telling the person to kill themselves which are auditory hallucinations. Suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts are potentially fatal symptoms of episodes of depression.

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