Breakinh News About Bipolar isorder

Mental health professionals have identified four main subtypes of bipolar disorder, which together are referred to as bipolar spectrum disorders: bipolar I, II bipolar, bipolar not otherwise specified, and cyclothymia.

Although the symptoms differ from person to person factors that distinguish bipolar types include the duration and intensity of mood swings.

Depression is the main characteristic of bipolar II. While those with bipolar II is "up" periods, these episodes are less pronounced. Instead of a full-blown mania, people with bipolar II experience hypomania, a milder form of mania. Studies show that women are more likely to have bipolar II.

Although people with bipolar II may deny that anything is wrong, loved ones, will probably notice that he or she seems agitated, it flies off the handle more often, or seems unusually upbeat.

Bipolar II is sometimes mistaken for depression, because hypomanic periods more difficult to detect. Over time, if left untreated, hypomania - "before" period - may progress to mania or become depressed