Manic depression: causes, phases and treatment of mental disorder

The human psyche may be affected by the development of many mental illness. One of them is a manic depression, which occurs under the action of certain factors

Among mental disorders is the most common disease, known as manic depression. This violation can be marked by such a term as «Bipolar affective disorder» (BAR). Such a severe disease is manifested by a waveguide change of affective states – from depressive to manic.

Many psyche diseases have hidden forms, so the patients themselves can not even suspect a long time for mental disorders.

Causes of manic depression

Man whose psyche is subject to such a disorder, worries alarm, longing, inhibition. Such a condition can sharply go to hyperactivity, infusion, euphoria. Approximately 3% of the total population of our planet suffers from this mental disorder. As a rule, the disease amazes young people under the age of 25. Manic depression can develop in children, starting from 13 years of age. 

Manico-depressive syndrome occurs in people regardless of their gender, but it is worth noting that women are more suspended by depression, and men – manic disorders. Under depression implies constantly oppressed mood, while manicality is manifested by increased excitability.

Scientists today were not fully studied the causes of the disease, but most of the specialists adhere to the opinions about the heredity of this ailment. Also, the adverse effects on the psyche of a person are injured and lesions of the brain, which usually do not pass without a trace. 

As the disease is manifested

The flow of manic depression is characterized by the shifters of two phases, one manifests itself by the depressed mood, the second – increased excitability. Between these two phases, as a rule, takes time when a person feels and behaves absolutely normal. 

Patients who undergo a depressive phase can be recognized by such pronounced signs:

• Depressed mood. The person is in an oppressed state, which is also accompanied by poor well-being – with general weakness, rapid fatigue, lack of appetite;
• Intellectual inhibition. This symptom of mental disorder is manifested in the impossibility of concentrating attention to the most elementary things;
• Physical and speech inhibition. Such changes are manifested by a decrease in the physical and mental reaction of the organism of the patient. Motor activity is dulled, in the absence of treatment, it can go to complete immobilization. 

When manic depression soon, after a bad mood, an excitation phase occurs. A person has a manic behavior, it is often possible to notice speech and motor disorders, improving performance.

If the depressive phase is characterized by vivid severity, then for the period of mania, it is characteristic of its calm flow. Deviations in human behavior with this mental disorder can only be determined by an experienced neuropathologist. 

External manifestations

When the disease is running, bipolar affective disorder is manifested intensively, and the phase of maniacality becomes more noticeable. Started in the evening, manic depression before the morning can disturb the patient without giving resting and his native. The sublime mood is often not true, the rise of energy is observed, the birth of delusional ideas. 

If you carefully watch the hands of a person, you can see signs of mental excitement. Hands are not in a calm position, the patient constantly moves them, it is terbed, straightens, corrects.

Also recognize the occurrence of an excited state can also be on running look. There can be a lot of pose, which often changes – a person sits down, gets up, walks, makes many unnecessary unnecessary movements. 

Treatment of depressive manic psychosis

Patients belonging to a group of manic depression must pass a full course of treatment under the supervision of an experienced neurologist or psychotherapist. At first, the specialist individually selects pharmacological preparations aimed at suppressing an excited state or, on the contrary, the means raising the mood. Emotional excitation factors are neutralized by soothing medicines. 

Self-treatment in such a disease is unacceptable, since the course of depressive-manic psychosis is rapidly aggravated, and can lead to sad consequences.