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- Symptoms include elevated mood, rapid speech, increased energy and motivation, feelings of self-importance, distractibility, irration, decreased need for sleep, engagement in risky behavior
- May involve psychosis (a break from reality, includes things like believing things that aren't true or seeing things that aren't there)
- May involve hospitalization
- Same symptoms as mania but less severe
- Can be an inconvenience but not debilitating like mania
- Does not involve psychosis
- Lasts four days or more
- Symptoms include feelings of sadness or hopelessness, lack of energy, difficulty concentrating and remembering things, loss of interest, feelings of emptiness or worthlessness, feelings of guilt, self-doubt, over or under eating, sleeping too much or too little, suicidal thoughts
- Lasts two weeks or more
- Mixed episodes: mania/hypomania and depression symptoms occur at the same time
- Euthymia: normal mental state experienced between episodes
- Rapid cycling: four or more episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression are experienced in a year
- Mania with or without depression
- Hypomania, no manic episodes
- Hypomania and milder depression
- Periods of euthymia are shorter; cycling is more frequent
- Symptoms must have been experienced for two years in adults and one in children in order to be diagnosed"
I already posted this to Instagram but I decided I might as well post it here. I know people on Tumblr tend to be more educated on mental illness, but hopefully somebody will learn something new! Feel free to ask me any questions! Sharing and reposting is encouraged, just credit me please!