Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
The main symptoms of the bpolar disorder must persist for a week and require hospitalization.
1. A distinct period of abnormally and persistently cheerful mood, irritable lasting at least a week.
2. During the period of mood disturbance, there are three (or more) of the following symptoms (four if the mood is merely irritable) continuously and to a considerable extent:
3. The symptoms are not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (drug abuse, a medication or other treatment) or general illness (hyperthyroidism).
Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same period of two weeks and represent a change from previous functional capacity, at least one of the symptoms is (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure. Note: do not include those symptoms clearly due to a general illness or incongruent delusions or hallucinations.
Symptoms of Depression
1. Depressed mood for most of the day, nearly every day, indicated either by subjective account or observation by others. Note: In children and adolescents can be irritable mood.
2. Clearly waning interest or pleasure in all or almost all activities during most of the day, nearly every day (indicated by subjective account or observed by others).
3. Significant weight loss without dieting or weight gain (e.g. a change of more than 5 percent of body weight in one month), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day. In children, observe if they fail to gain weight as expected.
4. Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day.
5. Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely the subjective feelings of restlessness or slowness).
6. Fatigue or lack of energy nearly every day.
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-criticism or guilt about being sick).
8. Decreased ability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness nearly every day (by subjective perception or observed by others).
9. Recurrent ideas of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a plan or a suicide attempt concrete or concrete plan to commit suicide.
