Manic depression symptoms or bipolar disorder, is also identified as manic-depressive illness. It is a mental disorder that can cause unusual and extreme shifts in temper, energy, activity levels, and the capacity to carry out day-to-day everyday jobs. Symptoms of manic depression symptoms can be quite severe to mild. These symptoms are very dissimilar from the usual ups and downs that everybody goes throughout their life time. Bipolar disorder symptoms can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. Manic depression symptoms can be treated and has been treated successfully with the use of bipolar medication.
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The mental illness – Bipolar is always known by the name manic depressive illness, manic depression, mania and depression symptoms etc. The name bipolar mood disorder is a new name added to the list already under bipolar. Bipolar mood disorder is the new name better describing the two severe mood swings – of depression and mania.
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“Manic-depression" was the term first introduced by a German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1856 who was educated in Würzburg. This severe mental disorder was formerly called manic-depressive disorder or manic-depression. It usually involves bipolar manic episodes that go with episodes of depression, symptoms of mood swings marked by severe feelings of hopelessness, rejection, loss, sadness, and failure . The two main types of bipolar mood disorders are bipolar disorder and major depression (unipolar disorder).
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Bipolar disorder symptoms which are psychotic can be present in bipolar one. It must be noted that when psychosis symptoms are present, it automatically rules out bipolar II disorder. But before we dwell into the finer detail of Psychotic symptoms, I think that it is important to define what psychosis is. It is the loss of contact with the truth, which includes delusions and hallucinations.
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This depressive disorder has been known to be with us since man started recording history. We read in the Old Testament, Job as well as the famous King David, suffered from this terrible illness. Hippocrates the Greek physician called depression, a black bile (melancholia). A clinical depression is a serious medical disorder that is negative in nature which affects how we feel, think and act. It has been written in literature arts for many, many years, but what does it mean when we refer to this mental illness – depressive disorder or a bipolar depression disorder? In the last century, depression was portrayed as a weakness of temperament which was inherited. Only in the beginning of the 20th century did Freud link the progress of depression to guilt with conflict.
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