Bipolar mood disorder

Symptoms

• 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

Treatment

There are several treatment options, including mood stabilisers (e.g. Lithium), antipsychotics or benzodiazepines.

Latest publication date: 14/05/2024
Supervising author: Dr Claeys Isabel