8 dangerous signs of “Bipolar” risk
In Thai society, more and more people with mental illness can be found. due to accumulated stress Including heredity is another part of many mental diseases, but for “Bipolar” there may still be many people who misunderstand the symptoms of this disease somewhat from reality. Sanook Health has information about the disease. Bipolar and symptoms that can be roughly observed By yourself, let’s share at ยูฟ่าเบท
What is bipolar disorder
Bipolar affective disorder Or bipolar disorder (Bipolar disorder) is a mood disorder. Patients with this disease will have mood changes. During major depressive episodes, alternating with periods of higher than normal mood (mania or hypomania), symptoms in each period may last for weeks or months, and these symptoms will affect your life. of patients in terms of work Occupation Relationships with other people and take care of yourself a lot making it impossible to carry out normal daily life
Symptoms that may found in bipolar patients
Information from the Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University states that patients with bipolar disorder There will be periods of abnormal mood. There are depressive episodes alternating with periods of good mood. or more active than usual (mania or hypomania), which I would like to explain separately in stages This is when the mood is better than usual or mania.
The patient will have the following characteristics:
- mood changes The patient may in a cheerful mood, happy, joyful, or easily irritated. The patient’s close relatives often notice that the patient’s mood has changed from before to the point of abnormality. which symptoms occur Must be consecutive every day for at least 1 week.
- Have more self-confidence The patient will have excessive confidence in their abilities, believe that they are important and great, or may have very unusual thought content. To the point that oneself is important or great, such as believing oneself to have great power. or have special powers, etc.
- Sleeping abnormally Patients will have a decreased need for sleep. Some patients may feel that just 3 hours of sleep is enough, for example.
- Thoughts travel quickly (flight of idea). Patients think quite quickly. Sometimes I think about many things at the same time. I don’t finish thinking about one thing and I immediately think about something else. This can sometime express in the form of having many different projects.
- Speak faster because the patient’s thoughts are racing quickly. Therefore affecting speech. That is shown Patients often speak quickly. And difficult to interrupt Especially if the symptoms are severe, the words will be loud. And so much faster that sometimes it’s hard to understand.
- Easily distracted. Patients will rarely be able to concentrate on one thing for long. And attention often changes. According to external stimuli that are easily stimulated.
- increased movement In some patients, they will do various activities all the time, whether at work, at school, or at home. There is a clear increase in movement. Can’t stay still
- Can’t restrain myself People with mania often display behaviors that result from an inability to restrain themselves, such as drinking a lot of alcohol, making long-distance phone calls, gambling, or taking a lot of chances. You can spend more money.