I often wonder how to describe the difference between mania and depression. <\/p>\n
Depression: Feel you are the only person in the world.
\nMania: Feel completely at one with the world.
\nDepression: Living in the past
\nMania: Living completely in the moment- this is particularly true with euphoric mania
\nDepression: Silence
\nMania: Chattering nonsense when it goes too far<\/p>\n
I could go on and on! Things get really complicated when the moods are combined- this is known as a mixed episode or dysphoric mania. People with dysphoric mania have all of the energy of a person with euphoric mania, but it\u2019s agitated, uncomfortable mentally and physically and often comes with psychosis.<\/p>\n
I have had a few mixed episodes myself. Anti psychotic medications- including Zyprexa, Abilify, Risperdal and Serequel are often used for dysphoric mania along with the mood stabilizers Lithium, Depakote and Tegretol. I find that Lamictal helps me a lot, especially since I can\u2019t take anti psychotics due to side effects. The problem is that Lamictal alone is not a treatment for full blown mania- I have hypomania (Bipolar II) so it works for me. <\/p>\n
What kind of mania have you experienced? If you care about someone with the illness, what kind of mania do they experience? <\/p>\n
Julie <\/p>\n
PS: I will be a broken record for the next five months- spring is here and summer is coming- you have to know the signs of mania as this is mania season! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I often wonder how to describe the difference between mania and depression. <\/p>\n
Depression: Feel you are the only person in the world. Mania: Feel completely at one with the world. Depression: Living in the past Mania: Living completely in the moment- this is particularly true with euphoric mania Depression: Silence Mania: Chattering nonsense when it goes too far<\/p>\n
I could go on and on! Things get really complicated when the moods are combined- this is known as a mixed episode or dysphoric mania. People with dysphoric mania have all of the energy of a person with euphoric mania, but it\u2019s agitated, uncomfortable mentally and physically and often comes with psychosis.<\/p>\n
I have had a few mixed episodes myself. Anti psychotic medications- including Zyprexa, Abilify, Risperdal and Serequel are often used for dysphoric mania along with the mood stabilizers Lithium, Depakote and Tegretol. I find that Lamictal helps me a lot, especially since I can\u2019t [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12034,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}