Mental Health and Neuro Infection

Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia

Bipolar disorder, formerly called bipolar disorder, may be a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).When you become depressed, you'll feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts to mania or hypomania (less extreme than mania), you'll feel euphoric, filled with energy or unusually irritable. These mood swings can affect sleep, energy, activity, judgment, behaviour and therefore the ability to think clearly. Episodes of mood swings may occur rarely or multiple times a year. While most of the people will experience some emotional symptoms between episodes, some might not experience any. Although manic depression is a lifelong condition, you'll manage your mood swings and other symptoms by following a treatment plan. In most cases, manic depression is treated with medications and psychological counselling (psychotherapy).

Schizophrenia may be a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may end in some combination of hallucinations, delusions and very disordered thinking and behaviour that impairs daily functioning and can be disabling. People with schizophrenia require lifelong treatment. The symptoms of schizophrenia are usually classified into: positive symptoms – any change in behaviour or thoughts, like hallucinations or delusions. Negative symptoms – where people appear to withdraw from the planet around them, take no interest in everyday social interactions, and sometimes appear emotionless and flat.