Is it like scitzophernia, and you believe in a duel personality, and you are one with with everyday people, and another way, lets say at the computer, watching TV, etc.
2007-09-08 07:52:06 · 8 answers · asked by SOF+1 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Everyone has feelings of happiness and sadness once in a while. Feeling high and feeling low are part of life.
But for someone with bipolar disorder (sometimes called manic depression), these feelings can be extreme:
These ups and downs can be too much for a person to cope with.
They can interfere with daily life.
Sometimes they can even be dangerous.
The ups and downs
One day you may feel so depressed that you can't get out of bed. Work may seem impossible.
On another day you may feel great and full of endless energy. You may feel like you’re getting a lot done. But other people might think that what you are doing is dangerous and out of control.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. It can be hard for healthcare providers to diagnose. But it's nothing to be embarrassed about. Learning more about how to manage the condition can help.
2007-09-08 13:51:24 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Bipolar affliction ( additionally common as Manic Depressive affliction) : Is a situation while human beings adventure adnormally larger or abnormally depressed states for a volume of time. This contains temper swings. definite, you're magnificent with what you have stated.
2016-10-10 05:05:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best description I could find was
'Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a disease; it is a medical condition that causes psychological problems to such a degree that daily functioning is hampered by the symptoms. The most prominent symptoms include extremes of mood known as depression and mania. These emotional extremes are usually beyond normal responses to events and often last for extended periods of time. Psychosis and suicide are also concerns for those diagnosed with this disorder.'my poor aunt suffered from this for many years and was wrongly diagnosed and so wrongly treated for many years - even having her stomach pumped when suffering a heart attack!
2007-09-08 08:08:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bi-polar is a type of depression, your mood swings between being low, which is the depressed phased to high which is the manic phase. It is usually treated with mood stabilisers and sometimes anti-depressants. It is also known as manic depression.
Schizophrenia is quite a different illness, the persons suffers with psychosis, they can have negative and positive symptoms. The suffer with delusions, hallucinations and other symptoms. The treatment is usually atypical anti psychotic medication.
Duel personality is probably a type of hysteria.
2007-09-08 08:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly to clear up schizophrenia is not a dual personality it is a collection of positive and negative symptoms - positive being things like hallucinations, negative being symptoms like social withdrawl. It is not uncommon for those with schizophrenia to have depression as well. The main difference between bipolar and schizophrenia is that us polar bears have highs as well as lows and don't necessarily have psychotic symptoms (voices etc which are characteristic of schizophrenia). Neither illness is pretty and both very misunderstood by society at large.
2007-09-09 03:47:04 · answer #5 · answered by kaleidoscope_girl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here's the National Institute of Mental Health link for bipolar.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/bipolarmenu.cfm
Look up schizophrenia while you are there. And, dissociative identity disorder, too. Your ideas on all three of these are far from the the actual illnesses.
Schizo is about hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disorganized thinking. Bipolar is about mood swings that typically last three weeks or longer - depression and mania. Dissociative Identity Disorder is about multiple personalities.
What you are describing sounds more like a normal choice, anxiety, shyness, being a bit two faced, or remote possiblity of shades of a personality disorder.
2007-09-08 08:10:51 · answer #6 · answered by Alex62 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Manic depression is the previous explanation, now bipolar disorder.
2007-09-08 08:01:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - it is manic depression - which is a disorder where you are manically happy one day, and then heavily depressed the next.
2007-09-08 08:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by sicoll007 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋