PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kay Redfield Jamison, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Bipolar Ii Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: annapolotskaia

Document Summary

Manic or hypomanic episodes are required for bipolar i and ii. It is a mild form of bipolar disorder (manic depressive illness), in which a person has mood swings over a period of years that go from mild depression to emotional highs. Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity: decreased need for sleep, more talkative than usual, or pressure to keep talking, racing thoughts ( flight of ideas , distractibility. Cognitive flighty and pressured thoughts, decreased focus, attention, judgment. Behavioral overactive, speech difficult to understand, talkative. Physiological decreased need for sleep, highly active, increased interest in sex. Distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and persistently increased activity or energy, lasting at least 4 days. During the mood disturbance, 3 (or more) of the following symptoms have been present (4 or more if mood is only irritable) Decreased need for sleep: more talkative than usual, or pressure to keep talking. Bipolar ii disorder, major depressive episodes alternate with hypomanic episodes.