An illness worse than depression is called bipolar disorder.

The world view is constantly built, then collapsed, reconstructed, then collapsed, and repeated... This is the experience of bipolar patients. The scientific name for manic-depressive symptoms is "bipolar disorder," and for depressive symptoms "unipolar disorder." The so-called "bipolar" 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 much worse illness than depression because a person with bipolar disorder can go from being a high-energy, quick-thinking person who thinks he's exceptional to a pessimistic loser.

Difference Between Bipolar and Depressed

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

Bipolar disorder has both depressive episodes and manic or hypomanic episodes. If a patient has had a manic episode before, even once, it is a bipolar disorder, not a depressive symptom. Never mania, depression.

Manic-depressive syndrome is a common mental disorder that is divided into two phases: manic and depressive.

When you're depressed, it's characterized by low mood, less activity, and a loss of interest in everything—sometimes you don't even have the strength to pick up things that fall from the floor.

At the same time, it will be accompanied by symptoms such as poor sleep, memory loss, unresponsiveness, low efficiency, and lack of energy to do anything, and even feel very negative, hopeless, helpless, and useless. Some people will want to die, even commit suicide.

During mania, the patient is very excitable, high-spirited, talkative, nosy, prone to tantrums, spends money recklessly, stays up all night, and overestimates himself.

Another common name for bipolar disorder is genius disorder. Many writers, artists, and philosophers suffer from it. It has even been suggested that bipolar disorder inspires artists.

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

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

If you are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it is generally difficult to recover by self-healing and requires treatment. 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 mostly adopts drug therapy, physical therapy and psychotherapy.

Patients with mild symptoms can be treated with psychotherapy, while patients with severe symptoms generally need drug therapy or even physical therapy to achieve results.

The symptoms of bipolar disorder can be divided into three phases according to the course of the disease: acute treatment, consolidation treatment and maintenance treatment. If the acute symptoms are under control, 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-hearted by nature, they don't have the heart to hurt others, and they don't have enough strength to protect themselves, so they turn all difficult troubles into emotions to punish themselves, and slowly they become attacks on themselves.

All they need is a little more understanding and love.