Contents:
- Medical Video: About Bipolar Characteristics
- Characteristics of bipolar disorder
- Episode mania
- Depressed episode
Medical Video: About Bipolar Characteristics
Bipolar disorder or bipolar disorder often it is interpreted as a form of a person's character defects. This is because bipolar characteristics are usually characterized by excessive emotional turmoil. In fact, bipolar disorder is a mental disorder caused by biological factors that are beyond the control of the sufferer. Some risk factors for bipolar disorder include genetic (hereditary) and abnormal brain function.
This disorder is called bipolar (which means two poles) because the sufferer shows two very different emotional poles. The first is mania, the phase or episode of extreme happiness and explosiveness. While the second pole is depression. This second pole is the drastic opposite of mania. Sufferers will enter a phase that is so sad, sad, lackluster, and very lethargic.
What distinguishes bipolar disorder from mood swings in general is its intensity. Bipolar sufferers will show a very severe phase of mania and depression so they can lose control of their own emotions.
Characteristics of bipolar disorder
Bipolar characteristics are often ignored, or are only considered signs of stress. In fact, bipolar is not as simple as stress or depression. If not treated properly, symptoms can worsen and cause dangerous complications. So, learn the difference in reasonable emotional turmoil and which are the following bipolar characteristics.
Episode mania
In the mania phase which can last for several hours, days, or weeks, bipolar patients usually exhibit extreme and uncontrollable behavior. In some cases, the sufferer is unable to undergo daily activities such as school and work, until he has to be hospitalized. This is what usually happens in episodes of mania.
- Can't keep quiet, have to move or walk back and forth.
- Feel the exuberant excitement.
- So be more aware of the surrounding environment, ranging from falling objects, touches of other people, to the voices he hears.
- Talk very quickly without clear direction (difficult to understand).
- Can not sleep, stay up all night but do not feel sleepy or tired in the morning.
- Acting recklessly, such as shopping madly, fighting with teachers or superiors, resigning from the company, having sex with strangers without condoms, reckless driving, or drunk drinking.
- Psychosis, which is not able to distinguish which is real and which is only in his mind.
Depressed episode
The opposite of mania is depression. Sufferers will show unnatural sadness or despair. The following are bipolar features in a depressive episode.
- Withdraw from the environment and the closest person.
- Loss of interest in activities that were previously enjoyed.
- Drastic loss of energy and energy, usually sufferers can not leave the bed for hours or days.
- Talk very slowly, sometimes like someone who is wandering.
- Memory, concentration and reasoning disorders.
- Obsessed with death, suicide, or attempted suicide.
- Drastic changes in diet, whether appetite is lost or increased.
- Constantly feeling guilty, useless, or unworthy.
