What are some characteristics of someone who is bipolar?

Answer 1

To break it down as simply as possible, bipolar symptoms will show up in one of four types of episodes:


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Depression (may look identical to any typical, "uni-polar" depression)
Mania (extreme elevated mood)
Hypomania (mild to moderate elevated mood)
Mixed (combination of depressive symptoms and increased energy)


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Different people experience different symptoms and patterns of this illness. Some may experience periodic manic or hypomanic episodes, followed by periods of normal moods. Others may crash into mild or severe depression, which may last for weeks or even months before resolving. When a person's bipolar symptoms cycle through four or more episodes within a 12 month period, it is called "rapid cycling." Rapid cycling can vary widely in it's frequency, and for some people can cycle several times within a day ("ultra rapid-cycling") or even one minute to the next ("ultra-ultra rapid cycling").

Answer 2

There are certain dianostic criteria that are needed to diagnose someone as bipolar.. and even then there are 2 distinctly different forms of bipolar disorder.

The main people that we see in the emergency room are the ones that were feeling so great that they stopped taking their medications and now they have crashed and are not taking care of their personal hygiene, talking fast (manic), hyperactive movements, and not being able to reason with them.

It isn's so much mood swings as the difference between depression and mania. The mania needs to last for so long and so does the depression to be considered for bipolar disease.
Try checking the DSM-IV criteria for the psychiatric illness diagnostic criteria.

Answer 3

Their behavior will swing between happy, upbeat, everything's GREAT and depressed, don't want to see, or talk to anyone, and nothing's right with their world. The swings are generally not predictable nor necessarily regular. Diagnosis is not simple, medications often help and the person often goes off them because they feel OK and "If I'm feeling OK, the meds are uncessary. It's a tough deal.

Answer 4

Well, there are several characteristics. Some people can just.........SHUT THE HECK UP IM TIRED OFF ALL THESE STUPID QUESTION FLOATING AROUND WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING.........sorry had a spell there. Back to what I was saying some people are happy one minute and will.........WHAT KINDA FING QUESTION IS THIS. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE I SHOULD COME OVER THERE AND JUST.....Well I hope I was helpfull. Goodluck with your answers.

Answer 5

SEVERE UPS AND DOWNS IN MOODS, MEMORY LOSS FROM STRESS, VIOLENCE SOMETIMES. OR THEY CAN CHANGE FACE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU LIKE EVERY 30 SECONDS

Answer 6

CRAZY as HELL! Runnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Answer 7

drastic moodswings