A disease worse than depression is called bipolar disorder.

The worldview builds up, then collapses, rebuilds, then collapses, over and over again... This is what bipolar sufferers experience. The scientific name for bipolar symptoms is "bipolar disorder", and the depressive symptoms are "unipolar disorder". The so-called "two poles" means that the patient's mood fluctuates repeatedly in two extreme states, sometimes reaching the peak of mania, and sometimes falling into the trough of depression. Emotions are like a roller coaster, with ups and downs.

Bipolar disorder is actually a worse disease than depression, because a person with bipolar disorder can go from being a high-energy, quick-thinking, self-proclaimed exceptionally good person to a pessimistic loser.

The difference between bipolar and depression

Early onset of bipolar symptoms. Bipolar disorder is more likely if the patient develops before age 25. If it is middle-aged and elderly people are more likely to be depressed.

Bipolar disorder is a combination of depressive episodes and manic or hypomanic episodes. If the patient has had a previous manic episode, even just once, it is bipolar, not depressive. There was never mania, it was depression.

Bipolar syndrome is a common mental disorder that is divided into two phases, manic and depressive.

Depression is characterized by low mood, decreased activity, and loss of interest in everything—sometimes not even having the strength to pick up objects that have fallen on the floor.

At the same time, it will also be accompanied by symptoms such as poor sleep, memory loss, unresponsiveness, low efficiency, and no energy to do anything, and even feel very negative, hopeless, helpless, and useless. Some people will want to die, or even commit suicide.

During mania, the patient is hyper-excited, high-spirited, talkative, nosy, loses his temper easily, spends money, stays up all night, and overestimates himself.

Another common name for bipolar disorder is genius disease. Many writers, artists and philosophers suffer from it. Some even think that bipolar can inspire artists.

But in reality, even in a manic state, the burst of inspiration is short-lived because it's hard to focus.

People with bipolar syndrome have severe and persistent mood swings, with periods of mania and periods of depression. Mania lasts for at least 3-4 days, usually more than 7 days, and depression for half a month.

If you are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it is generally difficult to recover through self-healing, and treatment is required. For psychiatry, bipolar syndrome is a very common disease, early treatment is effective, and most patients can be cured clinically.

At present, the treatment of bipolar syndrome is mostly drug therapy, physical therapy and psychotherapy.

Patients with mild symptoms can undergo psychotherapy, while patients with severe symptoms generally require medication or even physical therapy to achieve results.

Bipolar symptoms can be divided into three stages according to the course of disease: acute treatment, consolidation treatment and maintenance treatment. If symptoms in the acute phase are controlled, it should be consolidated for at least one to two years, or even three to five years.

Many people with mental disorders are very kind people. Just because they are kind in nature, can't bear to hurt others, and don't have enough strength to protect themselves, they turn all intractable troubles into emotions to punish themselves, and slowly they turn into attacks on themselves.

All they need is a little more understanding and love.