Conditions and diseases
Bipolar mood disorder
Symptoms and causes
Symptoms
- Disinhibition
- Busy, moves and talks a lot
- Racing thoughts, strong association, flights of thought
- Sleep disorder/no or very little sleep
- Irritated or agitated mood
- Excessive self-esteem
- No self-criticism
- Fanciful ideas
- Impulsive behaviour
- Feeling really well, goes in overdrive
- Sometimes sexually disinhibited
- Sometimes paranoia, sometimes psychosis
Causes
- Predisposition, heredity
- Fewer psychological factors
- Sleep disorder in combination with extra stress
- Sometimes due to a paradoxal reaction, such as in case of death
- Somatic causes
- Antidepressants
- Drugs or alcohol
Diagnosis and treatment
Treatment
There are various treatment options, some of which are listed here: mood stabilisers (e.g. Lithium), antipsychotics and benzodiazepines...
Treatment centres and specialisations

Psychiatric Department
Psychiatric Department
Latest publication date: 21/01/2021
Supervising author: Dr Raemdonck Jan