What Is Hypomania

What is hypomania, is it an illness or an episode?

The pioneering diagnostician Emil Kraepelin identified hypomania in 1912 in 1/2011, PubMed revealed only 1059 entries

Have you ever heard?

Of hypomania?? Anyone with this disorder might have developed this symptom there might be other factors that play into this.

For example one woman in 2008 was treated for a major depressive disorder due to she had been on treatment with a number of antidepressants, at the time she was on lamotrigine she had some slippage on her meds so they increased it and her mood increased she then began to feel hyper and could not get any sleep but maybe a couple of hours a night.

She also became easily distracted, she could not engage in activities such as watching TV. She craved for more coffee and started working out at the gym twice a week. She started acting more flirtatious (inappropriately flirtatious) and got an injury after running through a fountain. Her meds were then decreased, this was all caused from her meds and in a patient with unipolar depression drugs are not the best way to treat depressions.

Symptoms of hypomania

* Pressured speech; rapid talking

* Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity;

* Decreased need for sleep;

* Flight of ideas or the subjective experience that thoughts are racing;

* Easy distractibility and attention-deficit (superficially similar to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder);

* Increase in psychomotor agitation; and

Steep involvement in pleasurable activities that may have a high potential for negative psychosocial or physical consequences.

Treatments of Hypomania

Trust in the help of a friend or a family member gives them permission to intervene should they see you getting out of control. Intervention includes providing a calm environment verbalizing the patient’s mood, behavior and thoughts and providing constructive feedback and reassurance if necessary the friend should have...