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Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder. The single most telling symptom of bipolar disorder is the episodic oscillation between high and low mood states — characteristic shifts between depression, normal ...
Often, anxiety disorders and sleep disturbances precede the mood symptoms of PBD. [6] [7] If a child presents with symptoms of anxiety and changes in sleep pattern with major changes in energy and deterioration of function, especially in school, this may warrant evaluation for PBD. [8]
Symptoms: Periods of depression and elevated mood [4] [5] Complications: Suicide, self-harm [4] Usual onset: 25 years old [4] Types: Bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, others [5] Causes: Environmental and genetic [4] Risk factors: Family history, childhood abuse, long-term stress [4] Differential diagnosis
Cyclothymia (/ ˌ s aɪ k l ə ˈ θ aɪ m i ə /, siy-kluh-THIY-mee-uh), also known as cyclothymic disorder, psychothemia / psychothymia, [5] bipolar III, [6] affective personality disorder [7] and cyclothymic personality disorder, [8] is a mental and behavioural disorder [9] that involves numerous periods of symptoms of depression and periods of symptoms of elevated mood. [3]
Bipolar disorder – mental disorder with cyclical periods of depression and periods of elevated mood. [1] The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania , a severe elevation that can be accompanied by psychosis in some cases, or hypomania , a milder form of mania.
Mood disorders fall into seven groups, [2] including; abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and moods which cycle between mania and depression ...
Hypomania is a feature of bipolar II disorder and cyclothymia, but can also occur in schizoaffective disorder. [11] Hypomania is also a feature of bipolar I disorder; it arises in sequential procession as the mood disorder fluctuates between normal mood (i.e., euthymia) and mania. Some individuals with bipolar I disorder have hypomanic as well ...
While most teens have returned to a normal life of in-person school, sports and social activities, eating disorders, especially anorexia, remain at an all-time high, experts warn.