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What is bipolar disorder? PART II

Hypomania  

Hypomania is a mood episode that mostly people with type II bipolar disorder experience (but people with type I can experience it too) similar to mania. The difference between mania and hypomania is that in hypomania, the individual does not require hospitalization and there are never any psychotic features present. Individuals in a hypomanic episode typically experience:  

 Increase in energy 

 Decreased sleep 

 Pressured speech 

 Increase in goal-oriented activity 

 Irritability  

 Elevated mood 

 Psychomotor agitation 

 Grandiosity 

 Disinhibition and focus on instant gratification that can result in spending sprees or risky sexual behaviour  

It is important to note that these changes in mood and behaviour are enough to draw the attention of others, especially family and friends.  It is important that you have a friend or family member that can act as your “life guard”….someone to tell you when they notice these behaviours, and someone who you trust enough to take their word on it.

Mixed Episode  

A mood episode that includes features of mania/hypomania and depression simultaneously.

Diagnostic Criteria for the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder 

Type I: One or more manic episodes.  A depressive or hypomanic episode is not required for diagnosis, but it frequently occurs. 

Type II: One or more hypomanic episodes and one or more major depressive episodes.     

Cyclothymia:  History of hypomanic episodes with periods of depression that do not meet criteria for major depressive episodes.  Low-grade cycling of mood which appears to the observer as a personality trait, and interferes with functioning.   

BD NOS (not otherwise specified): Catchall category.  Diagnosed when the disorder does not fall within a specific subtype.   

Types of Cycling  

Rapid cycling: Four + episodes per year.

Ultra rapid cycling: Several distinct episodes within a week 

Ultra radiant cycling: multiple episodes within the same day

Lights are cameras. Smoke detectors are cameras. Everyone’s watching. Fuck fuck fuck. My computer is a camera.

Anxiety attacks aren’t always hyperventilating and rocking back and forth

Anxiety attacks can take different forms, such as:

Unpredictable bouts of rage or irritability

Nit-pickiness (obsessive behavior, which may be a part of OCD), and even a hypersensitivity to disarray, chaos, or any sort of change

Fast-talking, stuttering, stumbling over words

Not talking at all

Sitting rigid, staring into space, almost seeming “zoned out”

Understanding the way our or other’s anxiety works can help to decrease the stigma and help to calm a person faster and get them out of that state. These are just a few, but it gives an idea of the range in which attacks can come.

“Why do you take politics so personally.”

What if I told you

that these policies

affect me personally?

so last night, I came home about 10:30 just to find this abandoned, unlocked, empty post truck just parked on the side of the road near my house, next to the mouth of the woods. It was super odd because post trucks do not run at night, neither do they just suddenly appear unlocked. Now that’s some @sixpenceee shit

when you’re watching a movie and u recognize one of the actors in it from somewhere but u haven’t watched any of the movies or shows listed on their imdb