Bipolar Symptoms Explained

Bipolar symptoms are broken down into two groups – manic and depressive. People suffering from bipolar disorder will experience both groups of symptoms.

Mania

Mania is the high point of bipolar symptoms . With mania the person is feeling high. They are happy and feeling like they are on top of the world.

However, the main point of mania is that the person is not only pleased, but glad in the extreme. All symptoms of a person actually has in a manic episode is pushed to the extreme that is why it’s regarded as a mania, not just simply be happy.

The other trouble with the manic episode is that because of the extreme high, the person may tend to do something spontaneously, and cannot control their behavior. A lot of people during this episode will feel like they’re unbeatable.

Another problem that will occur in a manic episode will not look like happy behavior. The person will be extremely aggressive and provoking. They will look extremely impertinent or annoyed.

Symptoms of bipolar (manic episode) include:

• Very confident
• Irritable
• High energy
• No need for sleep
• Unrealistic thoughts
• High self-esteem
• Fast speech
• Very active
• Incapable to focus
• Restlessness
• Irresponsible behavior

Depression

The other type of episode experienced by someone with bipolar disorder is the depressive episode. Completely opposite of mania, depression causes a person to feel very low. A person will be overly sad and down.

They will begin to feel like their life is useless. The depressive episode may cause thoughts and actions to suicide.

A depressive episode is often times more harmful to a person than a manic episode. Depressive episodes are almost always treated with medication because of this fact.

The standard medications, though, used to treat depression frequently don’t work for bipolar depression and in fact will make it worse. Someone suffering from bipolar depressive episode usually will move slowly and begin to act extremely different than a person that is simply suffering from depression.

Symptoms of depression bipolar include:

• Feeling guilty
• Extreme sadness
• Moving and talking slowly
• Sleeping all the time
• Great changes in habits of eating
• Feeling of emptiness
• Apathy

It is important not to ignore the signs of bipolar disorder. Bipolar symptoms are the first sign that something is wrong and the first chance for a person to seek help and get treatment.