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| Bipolar Disorder Constituents | Manic Episode
A manic episode is a strangely elevated, outgoing or bad-tempered mood, not connected with matter abuse or a medical state. It comprises numerous disturbances in behavior and thinking that results in important life change problems. Chronic behavior that appears to some extent like to manic behavior is more likely ADHD or proof of personality problem.
On the one hand a manic episode is severe depression, which shades into reasonable depression. Then a mild brief mood disturbances come, then normal mood, then hypomania (a mild form of mania), and after that mania.
Some people with untreated bipolar disorder have constant depressions and occasional episode of hypomania. The mania and depression may happen only occasionally but they become the major problem as symptoms of mania and depression may be mixed together in a solitary bipolar condition.
The manic episode frequently has the following features:
• Extreme irritability and distractibility
• Extreme "high" or euphoric feelings
 • Sustained periods of strange, even bizarre, behavior with important risk-taking
• Increased energy, activity, quick talking and thinking, protest
• Decreased sleep
• Idealistic faith in one's own abilities
• Poor judgment
• Increased sex drive
• Substance abuse
• Provocative or obnoxious behavior
• Denial of problem
Depressive Episode
The depressive episode frequently has the following features:
• Persistent sad, anxious, or empty mood
• Feeling helpless, guilty, or worthless
• Hopeless or pessimistic feelings
• Loss of pleasure in usual activities
• Decreased energy
• Loss of memory or concentration
• Irritability or restlessness
• Sleep disturbances
• Loss of or increase in appetite
• Persistent thoughts of death
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