Do Manic Depressive Episodes Exist In Any Other Psychological Condition Besides Bi-Polar Disorder?
Manic Depression is now called Bipolar illness because people who suffer from this mental health illness cycle from manic episodes where they are very “wired,” and severe depression in the next cycle. Only in Bipolar illness do we see this type of “up and down” cycling. However, Hypermania exists as a “stand alone” illness, where no cycling into depression occurs. During this kind of mania, the patient will be unable to sleep, will talk very rapidly and not make a lot of sense, will spend lots of money on things they don’t need and can’t afford, and may even have some psychotic symptoms. In Major Depression, the opposite symptoms occur; either inability to sleep or sleeping too much, have no energy, are apathetic about everything, cannot focus or concenetrate, and often think about suicide. So, a person can be manic-depressive, or Bipolar, or a person can be hypermanic, or a person could be seriously depressed. All these are individual mental health conditions that require treatment by
