Conditions and diseases
Bipolar mood disorder
Symptoms and causes
Symptoms and causesSymptoms
- Disinhibition
- Busy, moves and talks a lot
- Raced thinking, strong association, flight of ideas
- 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 because of paradoxal reaction, for example in case of death
- Somatic causes
- Antidepressants
- Drugs or alcohol
Diagnosis and treatment
Diagnosis and treatmentTreatment
There are various treatment options, some of which are listed here: mood stabiliser (e.g. Lithium), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines...
Treatment centres and specialisations
Treatment centres and specialisations
Psychiatric Department (PAAZ)
Psychiatric Department (PAAZ)
Latest publication date: 14/12/2022
Supervising author: Dr Raemdonck Jan