Diagnosis 1
A distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and increased goal-directed activity lasting at least 1 week.
What is a manic episode?
This symptom qualifies as mania but also includes hallucinations and/or delusions.
What is Psychosis?
Decreased need for sleep means this.
What is feeling rested after only a few hours of sleep?
Significant unintentional weight loss or gain during a depressive episode reflects changes in this DSM symptom category.
What is appetite/ weight disturbance?
Depression must be treated with antidepressant medication.
What is myth?
This type of episode must include at least 5 symptoms over a 2-week period, including saddened mood or loss of interest.
Depressive episode
A client reports multiple major depressive episodes and one 5-day period of elevated mood with decreased need for sleep and increased productivity. There was no psychosis, hospitalization, or major impairment.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
During mania, this symptom involves jumping quickly between ideas or topics.
What is flight of ideas?
This is the confidence one has in one's own abilities and worth. It can affect whether you see yourself in a positive or in a negative light.
What is self-esteem?
Bipolar disorder always includes depressive episodes
What is a myth?
Bipolar I disorder requires at least one of these episodes.
What is a manic episode?
Unlike Bipolar I, Bipolar II does NOT require a history of this.
What is a Manic Episode?
This symptom refers to inflated self-esteem or believing you have special powers or abilities.
What is grandiosity?
Hypersomnia means this.
What is sleeping too much?
Bipolar disorder always includes manic/hypomanic episodes.
What is Fact?
Bipolar II disorder includes hypomania and this type of episode.
What is Depressive Episode?
If a person has ever had a full manic episode, the diagnosis automatically becomes this — even if they’ve also had hypomania and depression.
What is Bipolar I disorder?
This DSM symptom of mania involves feeling pressure to keep talking or being difficult to interrupt.
What is pressured speech?
True or False: Depression is only about sadness.
What is false? Depression can include feeling tired, empty, weak, and slowed-down
Bipolar disorder involves frequent mood swings.
What is myth?
This specifier is used when symptoms of mania and depression occur nearly every day during the same episode.
What is "with mixed features"?
A client has a history of depression and one 6-day episode of elevated mood that included grandiosity and resulted in hospitalization.
What is Bipolar I disorder?
The key clinical distinction between Bipolar I and Bipolar II is whether the elevated mood episode causes marked impairment, psychosis, or hospitalization versus a noticeable but less severe change in functioning.
What is mania vs hypomania?
True or False: Patients can stop treatment when they feel better.
False. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong chronic illness.
Bipolar Disorder is rare.
What is myth? Bipolar disorder affects 7 million people in the U.S. and 45 million worldwide.