Mania - Symptoms, Course, Causality, Treatment, Current Research
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Mania is a mood disturbance marked by an abnormal degree of elation or irritability along with a number of other symptoms including restlessness, inflated self confidence, a marked decrease in the need for sleep, rapid and loud speech that is difficult to interrupt, racing thoughts, high distractibility, and a marked increase in certain goal-directed activities. Over time, manic episodes are usually preceded or followed by periods of major depression, and diagnostically mania is seen as a component of bipolar, or manic-depressive, disorder. In bipolar disorders individuals experience alternating manic and depressive symptoms. Mania then is not currently considered a separate psychiatric disorder.
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The primary symptom of a manic episode is a marked disturbance of mood in which the individual is extremely elated or irritable for at least one week unless hospitalization is necessary. The individual's mood may be unusually cheerful or good, and while this may not seem unusual to those who do not know the individual, to those who do, it is usually seen as excessive and strange. The person…
Currently, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision, 4th edition (DSM-IVTR) has no separate diagnostic disorder called mania or manic disorder. The DSM-IV-TR is the official psychiatric classification system for medical and legal uses in the United States. Over the years, psychiatrists and psychologists have questioned whether mania is experienced without depressive…
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