Importance of seeing a psychiatrist

If and when you begin to see symptoms of bipolar disorder it is extremely important that you visit a psychiatrist for an

accurate diagnosis of the underlying cause and to receive long-term

treatment

DSM-5 Criteria

(The DSM-5 is a book used by mental health professionals to help diagnose and classify mental disorders, providing a standardized list of criteria and descriptions for various conditions. )

If you think you fit the criteria for Bipolar disorder I or Bipolar disorder II fill out the form by hitting the button below

Manic episode symptoms

Additional Required Criteria

➤ Inflated self-esteem

➤Decreased need for sleep

➤more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking

➤Racing thoughts

➤Distractibility

➤Increase in goal directed activity

➤Excessive involvement in activities with high potential for painful consequences

➤ Distinct periods of mood disturbances

➤ Mood disturbance sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in social/occupational functioning or needs hospitalization to stop from harming others or to harm self or any other psychotic features

➤Episode not attributable to a substance

Hypomanic episode

Additional Required Criteria

➤ Inflated self-esteem

➤ Decreased need for sleep

➤ More talkative than usual, or feel pressure to keep talking

➤ Flight of ideas or subjectively racing thoughts

➤ Distractibility

➤ Excessive involvement in activities with high potential for painful consequences

➤ Distinct periods of mood disturbances

➤ Episode associated with a change in functioning uncharacteristic of person when not symptomatic

Major depressive episode

Additional Required Criteria

➤ Depressed Mood

➤ Loss of interest/ pleasure in all or most activities

➤ Weight loss or gain

➤ Insomnia or hypersomnia (Nearly Daily)

➤ Psychomotor agitation or retardation

➤ Fatigue

➤ Feeling worthless or excessive/inappropriate guilt

➤ Decreased concentration

➤ Thoughts of death/suicide

➤ Symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning

➤ Episode not attributable to physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition

Created by Jay Monteleon

Keep in mind this is for a school project and I am in no way a medical professional