{"id":763,"date":"2012-01-13T12:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:20","slug":"quick-symptom-definitions-mania-ocd-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/quick-symptom-definitions-mania-ocd-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Symptom Definitions: Mania, OCD, Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Mania<\/strong><\/span> only exists in bipolar disorder. It\u2019s a chemically elevated mood that can be euphoric (happy, creative\u00a0and sometimes delusional!) or dysphoric\u00a0\/mixed (agitated,\u00a0depressed\u00a0and uncomfortable.) Mania is often more difficult to treat than depression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><strong>OCD: <\/strong>A form of anxiety characterized by obsessive thoughts that are seemingly calmed by compulsive behavior- only to show up again! OCD can be treated with antidepressants, but behavioral therapy has the most success. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Bipolar Depression: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The downswing of bipolar disorder that is almost always complicated by the presence of other symptoms such as anxiety. It can be present with mania in a dysphoric\/mixed episode. It\u2019s not advisable to use antidepressants for bipolar depression as they can cause mania.\u00a0Bipolar depression is much more difficult to treat than unipolar depression. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bipolar disorder is complicated.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important to know all of its symptoms. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Julie <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mania only exists in bipolar disorder. It\u2019s a chemically elevated mood that can be euphoric (happy, creative and sometimes delusional!) or dysphoric \/mixed (agitated, depressed and uncomfortable.) Mania is often more difficult to treat than depression. <\/p>\n<p>OCD: A form of anxiety characterized by obsessive thoughts that are seemingly calmed by compulsive behavior- only to show up again! OCD can be treated with antidepressants, but behavioral therapy has the most success. <\/p>\n<p>Bipolar Depression: The downswing of bipolar disorder that is almost always complicated by the presence of other symptoms such as anxiety. It can be present with mania in a dysphoric\/mixed episode. It\u2019s not advisable to use antidepressants for bipolar depression as they can cause mania. Bipolar depression is much more difficult to treat than unipolar depression. <\/p>\n<p>Bipolar disorder is complicated. It&#8217;s important to know all of its symptoms. <\/p>\n<p>Julie <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/quick-symptom-definitions-mania-ocd-depression\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11615,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/11615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}