Is there an extreme opposite to depression?
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A thought occured to me…if people get treated for depression, are there any cases (surely rare) that someone is too euphoric and needs treated? Is there a name for that disease?
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I don’t think there is a treatment for happy people, but Bipolar people swing from manic to depressed. So the euphoric state they are being treated for is called manic.
I don’t know, but I used to have a boss who we called “terminally optimistic”. He wasn’t stupid by any means, but he seemed to be out of touch with reality when it came to getting things done, especially by the government.
The government have cured that.
Yes there is. It is called Mania. However it is usually coupled with depression. Once called Manic Depression, it is now referred to as Bipolar Disorder.
It is called mania and you may need a slight downer to keep you in line
It is called Mania. It usually is temporary and will trade with mood with depression. Bipolar disorder is what it is called officially. There are 2 kinds- rapid cyclying where the mood only lasts for a few minutes or where the moods will last for weeks or months at a time.
hypomania
delusions of granduer
sometime along those lines
Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts”
“For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.”
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling…People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.”
“You know it ain’t easy
For these thoughts here to leave me
There’s no words to describe it
In French or in English
Well, diamonds they fade
And flowers they bloom
And I’m telling you
These feelings won’t go away
They’ve been knockin’ me sideways
They’ve been knockin’ me out lately
Whenever you come around me
These feelings won’t go away
They’ve been knockin’ me sideways
I keep thinking in a moment that
Time will take them away
But these feelings won’t go away.”
One should go out to their relatives
or some exciting places so that he/ she forgets about her/ his depression
a manic depresive will swing between depresion and mania but i know of no ailment specificaly euphoric.
if there were no downside i am guesing it would not be a diseas.
Yes, there is mania. It’s part of the bipolar spectrum. Some people can experience mania without depression. Hypo-mania on it’s own is not a problem. It’s when one cycles that it’s a problem. Mania does have it’s down side while hypo-mania without the depressive cycle does not.
Yes, but under rare circumstances, unless the patient has bipolar disorder (also known as maniac disorder).
If a patient becomes overly excessively elevated, he/she may NEED to be treated.
yeah its called bipolar disorder and it can be treated
This is called mania. People who experience mania are diagnosed as bipolar I. The symptoms are:
Elevated mood
Euphoria
Hyperactivity
Excitement
Overconfidence
Grandiosity
Extravagance
Spending sprees
Recklessness
Delusions of grandeur
Talking a lot
Rapid speech
Rapid movements
Reduced need for sleep
Increased appetite
Excessive exercising
Increased libido
Increased use of alcohol
Distractedness
Aggression
Excessive laughter
Anger