what is bipolar depression?

Answer 1

The answer can be found in the website linked to below. Basically bipolar disorder is a mood disorder caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. This imbalance can cause the afflicted person to have sudden mood changes. Depression and mania are the two extremes that bipolar people experience. When depressed a person living with the disorder is said to be having a depressive episode, so bipolar depression is the depressive part of the disorder.

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Answer 2

Bipolar disorder /depression— also known as manic-depressive illness — affects millions of people each year.

For people with bipolar disorder, life can be an emotional roller coaster. It can have intense highs and crippling lows. But treatments are available to help control these extreme mood swings. Although there is no cure, with proper treatment, people diagnosed with bipolar disorder can live normal lives.

Answer 3

Bipolar disorder is characterized by cycling mood changes: severe highs (mania) and lows (depression). Sometimes the mood switches are dramatic and rapid, but most often they are gradual. When in the depressed cycle, an individual can have any or all of the symptoms of a depressive disorder. When in the manic cycle, the individual may be overactive, overtalkative, and have a great deal of energy. Mania often affects thinking, judgment, and social behavior in ways that cause serious problems and embarrassment. For example, the individual in a manic phase may feel elated, full of grand schemes that might range from unwise business decisions to romantic sprees. Mania, left untreated, may worsen to a psychotic state.

Answer 4

Bipolar depression is a mental illness that causes extreme changes in mood, thinking, and behavior. During a "manic phase," people with bipolar disorder experience feelings of euphoria, happiness, and hyperactivity. Some even experience delusions of grandeur. During a "depressed phase," feelings of sadness and depression are the norm. Some patients experience suicidal thoughts. People with bipolar disorder experience these severe mood swings many times during their lives. Some will experience several mood swings during a single year, while others will experience only one or two episodes in a lifetime.
Depression and mania are considered to be the polar opposites of human emotion. The term "bipolar" describes the swings between these two emotional "poles." Other names given the disorder include bipolar depression, bipolar affective disorder, bipolar personality disorder, bipolar mood disorder, manic depression, and manic depressive illness.

Answer 5

Bipolar depression, as opposed to unipolar depression means that you're depressed at the moment but can become manic or at least hypo-manic. That's when mood stabilizers are the medications prescribed as opposed to anti-depressants. Anti-depressants can swing a bipolar persons mood into mania. (Personally, I still prefer to use the term manic-depressive to bipolar, but it's the fad now to use the term bipolar.)

Get on the website for NAMI.org and click on "inform yourself" for more. And there is a very active bipolar forum there, too- in the discussions and "living with" communities.

Answer 6

Bipolar depression: the bipolar depression stage is most like depression during which the suffer experiences persistent feeling of sadness, anxiety, guilt or hopelessness, fatigue and loss of interest in daily activities, problems concentrating, irritability, chronic pain with no know cause, disturbances in sleep and appetite and recurring thoughts of suicide.

Bipolar itself is a combination of extreme highs and lows and often begins in adolescences or early adulthood and may persist throughout life.

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Answer 7

Bipolar Depression is a psycological condition in which there may or may not be an actual cause behind the depression of the patient. It comes in two flavour B.D. type 1 and type 2, type 2 is more dangerous than type 1.

Answer 8

Bipolar disorder, also called "manic-depressive" disease, is a mental illness that causes people to have severe high and low moods. People with this illness switch from feeling overly happy and joyful (or irritable), to feeling very sad. Because of the highs and the lows -- or two poles of mood -- the condition is referred to as "bipolar" disorder. In between episodes of mood swings, a person may experience normal moods.

Answer 9

I have see bipolar depression closely in my family. A person is in a state of depression for some period of time and for other period of time is hyper active resulting in sucidal tendencies sometimes. The period of change from one state to other is not as short as mentioned by many others. In case of the person I have observed it ranged form a period of 2 months to a year. Medicines help controlling it but has to used for life long inmost cases. These persons can live a very normal life with support f medicines but periodical visit to psychiatrist is a must.

Answer 10

Bipolar depression is when you're sad for no reason at times because you're bipolar. I get like that a lot, just like I suddenly get excited about things like trains and Cavaliers (Chevy cars) for no reason because I've been bipolar all my life.