questions and facts about biploar

What Is Biploar?

People sometimes call biploar manic depression, bipolar disorder it causes extreme shifts in mood. People who have it may spend weeks feeling like they're on top of the world before plunging into a deep depression. The length of each high and low varies greatly from person to person.

what are the symptoms?

We all have changes in our mood, but in bipolar disorder these changes can feel very distressing and have a big impact on your life.

You may feel that your high and low moods are extreme, and that swings in your mood are overwhelming. And you may feel and behave very differently, depending on your mood. This can be difficult and confusing.

Manic and hypomanic episodes

Manic and hypomanic episodes – or mania and hypomania – both mean feeling high.

Manic and hypomanic episodes have similarities in how they may make you feel or act. But there are some key differences:

During a manic or hypomanic episode, you might feel happy, joyful or a sense of wellbeing

Very excited or uncontrollably excited

Like you can't get your words out fast enough

Irritable or agitated

Increased sexual energy

Easily distracted – like your thoughts are racing or you can't concentrate

Confident or adventurous

Like you’re untouchable or can't be harmed (more likely in mania)

Like you can perform physical and mental tasks better than normal

Like you need less sleep than usual

Very focused or determined to complete certain tasks or projects

Behaviours

During a manic or hypomanic episode, you might:

• Be more active than usual
• Talk a lot, speak very quickly, or not make sense to other people
• Be very friendly to others
• Say or do things that are inappropriate and out of character
• Sleep very little or not at all
• Act rudely or aggressively
• Misuse drugs or alcohol
• Spend money excessively or in a way that is unusual for you
• Lose social inhibitions
• Take risks with your safety