Everyone hopes that relatives/friends who have depression will get better and regain their confidence and passion for life.
But do you know? If the patient's mood suddenly improves, it is not necessarily a good thing.
Although this may be a sign of "better" the condition, the formation of depression has a long cycle and will not be easily affected or suddenly recover. This situation occurs in
, most likely because he is not suffering from depression, but bipolar disorder .
Characteristics of bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is also called bipolar disorder, Bipolar disorder represents two extremes of the state of mind, manic phase and depression phase.
patients have experienced both depression and depression attacks, as well as crazy manic attacks or hyperactivity attacks.
In a single-phase attack, the degree of mania or depression will first slowly increase to reach its peak, and then be relieved, and then it may turn into another attack period.
Characteristics of manic attack:
Emotions are high, or more prone to irritability and impatience than usual;
It is difficult to concentrate, and thinking is particularly jumping and running;
speaks faster and speaks more;
irrationally overestimates your abilities and is extremely confident;
0 sleep demand decreases;
0 uncontrollable shopping, blind investment and rash sexual behavior increase.
Characteristics of depression:
depressed or sad;
cannot get interested and give up the activities you like;
whole body is weak and negative and inferior;
difficulty in concentration, memory loss, brain slow reaction, etc.;
have self-harm and suicide thoughts or behaviors.
has two characteristics at the same time, so you should be wary of the possibility of bipolar disorder. Why is
often misdiagnosed as depression?
According to statistics, about 60% of patients with bipolar disorder have been misdiagnosed as depression. The reason for misdiagnosis of
is that on the one hand, many patients with bipolar disorder have on the onset of depression , and may be in a depressed state for a long time.
In addition, some patients have mild symptoms or transient symptoms during manic attacks, and the duration is very short, which increases the difficulty of distinguishing bipolar disorder and depression. When
and changes from depression to manic phase, the patient and his family will have the illusion that "the condition is improved", , so it is easy to misdiagnose.
So, what happens if misdiagnoses bipolar disorder as depression?
If a patient with bipolar disorder is misdiagnosed as depression and using depressive drugs alone will aggravate the condition, accelerate the circulation, mood fluctuations will become more obvious, and the condition will be more difficult to control.
Therefore, it is important to learn to distinguish between bipolar disorder and depression!
How to distinguish Bipolar from depression?
There is a completely different thing about bipolar disorder from depression, that is, patients will experience symptoms of mania or hypomania , which is a completely opposite state to depression.
If there are no symptoms of mania and hypomania, patients with the following characteristics should be wary of the risk of bipolar disorder:
Women have an early age (usually before the age of 25);
Energetic temperament, ring-like emotional temperament and borderline personality disorder;
has a family history of bipolar disorder, suicide, borderline personality disorder;
has frequent disease attacks, and symptoms are more obvious in the morning and light night;
has characteristics such as agitation, atypical and mixed.
People who have been diagnosed with "depression" do not mean that they will no longer be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Therefore, if you have the above symptoms, you must seek medical treatment in time and find a professional doctor to evaluate and diagnose.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-