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The Seven Main Manic Depression Symptoms
Diagnosing bipolar disorder is often difficult, even for mental health professionals. What distinguishes bipolar disorder from unipolar depression is that the affected person experiences states of both mania and depression.
Here's a few other reasons why manic depression can be so difficult to diagnose:
1. Bipolar disorder expresses itself along a wide continuum, with some people experiencing a little mania, while others experience quite a bit.
2. Plus, when manic depression shows up early in life, the first few episodes are much more likely to be depression, rather than mania, which usually shows up later in life. Which means the patient will likely be diagnosed with depression instead of manic depression.
Since a diagnosis of bipolar requires some sort of manic episode, patients are often first diagnosed and treated only for major depression, rather than bipolar depression.
Mania is the signature characteristic of bipolar disorder and, depending on its severity, is how the disorder is classified. Usually, mania is characterized by a distinct period of an elevated mood, generally appearing to be euphoric. People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep, with many often getting as little as 3 or 4 hours of sleep per night, while others can go days without sleeping
Hypomania is generally a mild to moderate level of mania, characterized by optimism, elevated speech and activity, and decreased need for sleep. While mania can interfere with the normal living of life, hypomania generally does not.
To be diagnosed with manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) a person would be expected to have at least three of the following seven symptoms:
1. Excessive self-esteem or grandiosity
2. Reduced need for sleep
3. Talks fast and frequent
4. Thoughts are too fast to process
5. Inability to concentrate; easily distracted
6. Dramatic increase in social or work-oriented activities
7. Making poor decisions such as with money or intimacy
Lithium has been the standard treatment for those who experience manic depression. Often times, lithium is combined with various antidepressants such as Paxil or Zoloft. Many people, however, can't tolerate lithium.
One of the ways lithium relieves manic depression symptoms is by promoting increased brain levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Other mood-stabilizing medications include valproic acid and Lamictal.
Antipsychotic medications are also used to help alleviate manic depression symptoms, in cases where lithium and other mood stabilizing drugs are not enough.
The FDA has approved Zyprexa for acute episodes of bipolar, as well as a maintenance treatment. Zyprexa is an antipsychotic medicine originally used for schizophrenia.
Zyprexa can cause extremely unpleasant side effects such as diabetes, severe anxiety, tardive dyskinesia, (where your muscles spasm uncontrollably - sometimes irreversibly) and excessive weight gain. Loss of libido is another common side effect from taking Zyprexa.
Various other antipsychotic medicines are also used for bipolar, such as Abilify, Risperdal, Seroquel, and Geodon.
Another treatment option is Symbyax. While classified as an antidepressant, it's actually a combination of Zyprexa and Prozac. With all the side effects you've come to expect in a medication of this nature: most notably fatigue, weight gain, and loss of libido.
As an alternative to prescription antidepressants, 5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) has been shown in scientific studies to be just as effective without the numerous side effects of depression medications. To reduce manic depression symptoms, 5-HTP can be combined with lithium.
The heavy metal vanadium has been found in elevated levels in hair samples of manic patients. When an effected individual no longer displays manic symptoms, vanadium levels fall back into what is considered a normal range.
Those with unipolar depression have normal vanadium levels in their hair samples, but elevated levels in their blood. Their levels also return to normal upon recovery.
A person's mood seems to be tied in with the amount of vanadium in their body. By reducing vanadium levels, one double blind scientific study was able to produce significant improvement in manic depression symptoms. Their secret? They achieved this startling result by providing a common food supplement to the patients that changed the chemical structure of vanadate to the less harmful vanadyl.
To find out how they did it, go to this site on manic depression symptoms.
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