Symptoms of Bipolar Disease

Depression and mania are the two extreme phases of Bipolar disease.
During mania, a person may feel euphoric, indestructible, and unrealistic. Behavioral changes are noticed. The person may spend more money, have increased sexual appetite, less food and sleep, talk quickly and go from one subject to another rapidly in an uncontrolled manner, display increased gestures like pacing or tapping feet, become irritable and have poor temper control, poor judgment. In severe cases, a person may suffer from hallucinations and delusions.

During manic depressive disorder, a person may encounter crying spells, sadness, excessive guilt and worrying, lack of interest in normal life, loss of appetite or excessive eating, disturbed sleep or excessive sleeping, lack of focus and forgetfulness, social withdrawal , loss of interest in hobbies, chronic pain with no obvious physical cause.