| When someone talks about depression we only think of one type of depression which is called unipolar depression. There is another form of the illness which is called bi-polar disorder. This is when a person has both depressed moods and manic moods. The manic side usually exhibits things such as: visions of grandeur (looking at things on grand schemes), increase of energy, decreased sleep, excited or irritable at inappropriate times, fast-paced talking, sexual promiscuity, racing thoughts which often times skip around, poor judgement, and impulsive behavior (such as going on large spending sprees...sometimes to the point of spending all their money). People with Bipolar sort of yo-yo through their emotions. At one point, they could be depressed and not getting out of their house and then a few days or weeks later, depending on how rapid their swings are, they could be unable to sleep and going on shopping sprees. It is hard to get a person suffering from Bipolar to take their medications. Most of them enjoy their manic phase because they tend to get a lot done and are more creative. It is the depressive phase some feel is more disruptive to them. |
