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Bipolar Disorder Symptoms, Characterizations & How it looks to the non-Bipolar
Symptoms of Mania (Highs)
and Symptoms of Depression (Lows)
Bipolar I and Bipolar II (Characterizations of each)
Mania and Depression* (What these Symptoms look like to the non-Bipolar)
Bipolar I and Bipolar II (Characterizations of each)
Mania and Depression* (What these Symptoms look like to the non-Bipolar)
Symptoms of Mania (Highs)
- Increased physical and mental activity and energy
- Heightened mood, exaggerated optimism and self-confidence
- Excessive irritability, aggressive behavior
- Decreased need for sleep without experiencing fatigue
- Grandiose delusion, inflated sense of self-importance
- Racing speech, racing thoughts, flight of ideas
- Impulsiveness, poor judgment, distractibility
- Reckless behavior
- In the most severe cases, delusions and hallucinations
Symptoms of Depression (Lows)
- Prolonged sadness or unexplained crying spells
- Significant changes in appetite and sleep patterns
- Irritability, anger, worry, agitation, anxiety
- Pessimism, indifference
- Loss of energy, persistent lethargy
- Feelings of guilt, worthlessness
- Inability to take pleasure in former interests, social withdrawal
- Unexplained aches and pains
- Recurring thoughts of death or suicide
Bipolar I
Bipolar I is characterized by one or more manic episodes or mixed episodes (symptoms of both a mania and a depression occurring nearly every day for at least 1 week) and one or more major depressive episodes. Most severe form.
Bipolar II
Bipolar II is characterized one or more depressive episodes accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode (similar to manic episodes but are less severe, but must be clearly different from a person’s non-depressed mood).
Mania - What it looks like to the non-Bipolar
- Irritable, angry or raging
- Racing thoughts, unable to concentrate, unable to hold a thought
- Fast talking, or talking incessantly
- Spending money like a millionaire
- Obsessive compulsive
- Grandiose ideas, wanting to start a horse farm and you have never owned a horse
- Positive thinking (Peter Pan thinking)
- Indiscriminate sexual encounters
- Wanting sex multiple times a day with a partner
- Aggressive, paranoid, psychotic, delusional (last stages)
Depression - What it looks like to the non-Bipolar*
- Self-absorbed, selfish, demanding, unaware or unconcerned about the needs of others
- Unresponsive, uncommunicative, aloof, withdrawn
- Uninterested in sex and dismissive or distrusting of a partners tenderness or affection
- Fractious, querulous, combative, contrary; finding fault with everything
- Demeaning and critical of a partner
- Changeable and unpredictable; illogical and unreasonable
- Manipulative
- Pleasant and charming in public and the opposite at home
- Prone to sudden, inexplicable reference to separation or divorce
- Prone to workaholism or avoidance of all responsibility
- Increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs, gambling, spending money
- Obsessively addicted to TV, computer games and computer porn sites, and other compulsive distractions