Bipolar Type III: Cyclothymia
Bipolar disorder has many different variations. One little known variation is Bipolar type III, or Cyclothymia. A person who has developed this experiences moods that cycle between hypomania – a “high” that can be mild to fairly severe but does not include delusions, hallucinations or other psychotic features – and depression,... [Read more...]
Emotional Extremes: Mixed Bipolar Disorder
An interesting phenomena of the mind is when both mood “poles” of mania and depression are experience during an episode, or in rapid succession. About six million people in the US conceived bipolar disorder, and of that, 20%-70% of those people experience mixed episodes. It has been found that when an individual develops bipolar disorder at a young... [Read more...]
A Crazy Combo: Bipolar Schizoaffective Disorder
A mental illness not often heard like its brother, bipolar disorder,bipolar schizoaffective. It is said to be possibly the rarest of mental disease can be very difficult to diagnose. Symptoms must include psychotic episodes found in schizophrenia and intense mood swings of bipolar disorder (1a). Though it may seem like it, it is not Bipolar disorder... [Read more...]
Bipolar Disorder in Children
The unfortunate mental illness where one goes in out of different extremes, completely out of control with their emotions, sometimes out of touch with reality, can also occur in children. It’s called Pediatric Bipolar disorder. It doesn’t affect every child in the same way. How severe, frequent, intense, and long a child’s symptoms can differ... [Read more...]
Rapid-cycling through Mania
Rapid cycling bipolarism is when episodes of mania or depression occur 4 or more times a year. About 3% of the US population conceive bipolar disorder. However, amongst that percentage, 10% to 20% have rapid cycling. People with bipolar type II are more likely to experience rapid cycling (1a). Rapid cycle bipolarism can be difficult to diagnose. Since... [Read more...]
The Second Type
Bipolar II is reserved for those who are not quite as crazy as their bipolar type 1 peers. Their elevated moods are called hypomanic episodes. Also, depression is commonly experienced by these individuals. This is where the term “manic depression” comes from. Even though it seems that Bipolar II is just a milder version, and is very often described... [Read more...]
Bipolar 101
Bipolar I is affects 2.5% of the U.S. population, which is roughly 6 million people. Most people develop it in their late adolescence, during their teens or even into their 20’s (1a). If you have someone in your family who is bipolar, you have an increased chance of getting it. When one experiences a manic episode, their elevated mood is experienced... [Read more...]
Just How Crazy Are You?
If someone is bipolar, just how bipolar are they? This question brought up the creation of the bipolar spectrum. These disorders range from bipolar I disorder, featuring full-blown manic episodes, to cyclothymia, featuring less prominent hypomanic episodes, to “subsyndromal” conditions where only some of the criteria for mania or hypomania... [Read more...]
The Difference Between Bipolar 1 and Bipolar 2
To the average individual who doesn’t study psychology from time to time, it may be unknown to them a little fact about Bipolarism. There actually two types of diagnoses, those being Bipolar I and Bipolar II. The biggest difference between them is their severity. Let’s introduce two terms: Manic and hypomanic. In the hypomania of bipolar 2, a person... [Read more...]
Bipolar Journalists, Politicians and Business People
Politicians and Journalists Alastair Campbell, press advisor Dick Cavett, television journalist Iris Chang, historian and journalist Neil Cole, Australian Labor party Michael Costa, Australian Labor party Charmaine Dragun, former Australian journalist/newsreader Abbie Hoffman, political activist Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy Bill Lichtenstein, print and broadcast... [Read more...]
