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What is the difference between bipolar depression and bipolar disorder? |
what is the difference between bipolar depression and bipolar disoder? Bipolar disorder (previously known as manic depression) is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders where the person experiences states or episodes of depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. Left untreated, it is a severely disabling psychiatric condition. The difference between bipolar disorder and unipolar disorder (also called major depression) - for the purpose of this introduction - is that bipolar disorder involves "energized" or "activated" mood states in addition to depressed mood states. The duration and intensity of mood states varies widely among people with the illness. Fluctuating from one mood state to another is called "cycling" or having mood swings. Mood swings cause impairment not only in one's mood, but also in one's energy level, sleep pattern, activity level, social rhythms and thinking abilities. Many people become fully disabled - for significant periods of time - and during this time have great difficulty functioning. bipolar depression is listed as the same. Source(s): http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression... Bipolar Disorder is the category of illness. Bipolar Depression is just one of the symptoms of that illness. Directly below me, "Butterflygrrl" has a better and much more descriptive answer! Bipolar depression is one end of the bipolar spectrum. The term bipolar means between two polarities - depression at one end, and mania at the other. If you are diagnosed with a bipolar disorder, your mood may swing between the two to a greater or lesser degree, possibly with symptoms of anxiety disorder too. Bipolar disorders are marked by a cycling between major depression and hypomania. There is no such diagnosis as Bipolar Depression, however, you can be experiencing the major depressive episode of a bipolar disorder. Major depression have several diagnostic criteria as outline by the DSM-IV TR. http://www.psychologynet.org/ They are basically the same. If you are diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, you have had a Major Depressive episode and a Manic or Hypomanic episode. People will cycle between depression and mania frequently, but the length of the cycles will vary. There isn't actually a diagnosis called "Bipolar Depression". I suppose someone with Bipolar Depression has experienced mania in the past, but is currently having or most recently had a major depressive episode. |
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