Can adhd,ocd, and anxetiy turn into bi polar?

Answer 1

These are all separate mental health disorders though they may have some overlapping symptoms. ADHD is characterized by having poor impulse control and difficulty concentrating across environments. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety based disorder whereby the individual performs certain acts (hand washing etc.) in response to stress in an attempt to relieve their anxiety. Bipolar Disorder is a mixture of Major Depression and Mania or Hypomania. In this disorder a person has mood shifts that can take them from severe depressive states to extreme anxiety whereby they exhibit high energy and psychotic thinking for days at a time. In the hypomania form, the person is somewhat more able to focus. Each of these have different treatment modalities and medications. ADHD and OCD do not progress to become Bipolar Disorder but they can be misdiagnosed and mistaken for Bipolar Disorder.

Answer 2

Anxiety & OCD can be additional symptoms to haveing BiPolar, but they do not cause or turn into Bipolar, no. Bipolar is it's own disorder. A lot of mental health disorders are combined with other symptoms as well. If someone is diagnosed with OCD, they may also have Panic Disorder as well. If someone has Depression, they may also suffer from manic episodes of the disease. It all depends on what diagnosis you have & what your Dr. is telling you. OCD & anxiety pretty much mimic each other. You have to meet the criteria for all the different disorders you described for more than a 2-4 week period & you usually have to meet at least 2-3 symptoms described. If you are really curious, look at the DSMIV (Diagnostic & Statisical Manual) & see if you fall into all of these (for real). Sometimes Dr's do overdiagnose. Good luck, hope all works out. Also, peek at some mental health professional journals, they do give great articles on mental health issues.l

Answer 3

no... first of all ocd is a type of anxiety disorder

each of those illnesses (adhd, ocd, and bipolar) have different ways of being diagnosed. there are also several different variants of each disorder (eg. bipolar one and two). they are each separate illness, however a person can have all three... which may take time to diagnose correctly,

so NO adhd and ocd can not "turn into" bipolar.

Answer 4

One textbook definition describes bipolar disorder as: "a major affective disorder in which an individual alternates between states of deep depression and extreme elation." This is misleading in that bipolar disorder - also known as manic depression or manic-depressive illness - is much more complicated than just alternating between depression and elation.

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (commonly known as DSM-IV because it is in its fourth major edition) says, "Bipolar Disorder is characterized by the occurrence of one or more Major Depressive Episodes accompanied by at least one Manic Episode." So even if you're depressed 99 percent of the time, going through just one manic episode qualifies you for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder according to this definition - but that still leaves out a lot of what manic depression really is.

Answer 5

They are all somewhat interrelated as far as the outward symptoms are concerned. One can be misdiagnosed for the other and versa - visa. Me, been diagnosed as Bipolar, Asperger's, Completely Normal, Indigo, I act the fool and I get a label. I act the norm and they say I'm OK. Mental conditions are serious and not to be taken lightly. The greatest task is proper diagnoses and proper treatment. Can one condition lead to another?... Its possible. Just like robbery can turn into a homicide case.... It does not have to be that way.

Answer 6

maybe its the bi-polar that is coming out in all those ways!! adhd would be mania, ocd is how you handle it all and the anxeitiy is the stress on the mind!!

Answer 7

the two melancholy and bipolar are hereditary, and on an identical time as melancholy may be a factor of bipolar, it is likewise achievable for somebody to be co-morbid. it is likewise achievable for diagnoses to alter. So, sooner or later, you need to be merely depressed, yet whilst your concepts chemistry ameliorations, then over the years, it ought to start biking and advance into bipolar affliction. this might ensue any incorrect way around, however, too, as your concepts chemistry ameliorations from bipolar biking to purely an all-around melancholy. it rather is achievable. And definite, they're each from time to time flawed for the different.

Answer 8

Wow that is a lot of mental illnesses. I wonder what people did before we had all of these fancy names for disorders? How could they have survived not knowing what was wrong with them? I just don't know.