Manic-depressive patients should do what should be done
Manic-depressive disorder is a kind of mood disorder, due to the different times of the disease performance contrasts greatly, so in many cases it is difficult for the general public to make an accurate judgment of the disease, and do not know the cause of the disease, and it is even more difficult to know the correct treatment, so many times caused by the disease can not be diagnosed earlier, delayed timely treatment of the disease, which brings untold suffering to the patient. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on a new product or service, and then you can get a good deal on a new one.
What about manic-depressive episodes?
Manic-depressive patients will appear to feel very good about themselves, usually in the manic phase of the patient, on the background of the high state of mind, will feel surprisingly good about themselves. For example, they think their bodies have never been so healthy and their energy has never been so abundant. Thinking that you are brilliant, a sight for sore eyes, and so on. And this manic depression symptoms often prompt patients to overestimate their own talent, status, pretentiousness, can appear exaggerated ideas.
Manic-depressive patients will appear to think associations of visionary expansion, this kind of manic-depressive symptoms is often referred to in psychology, thinking run away. The patient's association process is obviously accelerated, the concept of one after another, talking a lot of sound more, gushing, the patient will be distracted, the topic is often shifted with the situation, there will be the concept of fluttering, the phenomenon of phonological association. For example, when you talk about poetry and white clouds, you can think about snow in winter.
Manic-depressive patients will appear mood changes ups and downs, pay attention to the most representative of the symptoms of manic depression, should be the patient is different from the ordinary depression patients manic state of mind experience. Manic episodes, patients often show relaxed, happy, and even smug, joyful, however, the patient's emotional response may be unstable, irritable, because of some trivial, or opinions have been refuted, or requirements are not met, and stormy or even appear destructive and aggressive behavior. In addition, some patients experience brief periods of poor mood during the manic phase.
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Depression
Moodiness:
Moodiness during depression is different from a normal person. It is different from a normal person's "something bad happened" and then a bad mood, it is accompanied by a severe brain reaction (it is later known that the brain of depressed people lacks "5-hydroxytryptamine and norepinephrine", two hormones that are closely related to the mood).
The brain reacts in a way that is not necessarily the same as the brain.
If your friends notice your moods, they may occasionally tell you to take it easy, be positive, and relax out of the goodness of their hearts.
The problem is, they have no idea what you need. The hardest reality to come to terms with is that even I'm not sure what it is that I need?
It was as if my depressed mood came out of nowhere!
Even the most delicate person can't name the exact reason why he or she is in a patch of depression, and even the hardest working person has a hard time improving his or her emotional state by addressing the reality of lifting reality. It's never just the simple reality that puts you in a depressive situation, there are so many different reasons for depression that you can't clearly map out a clear point.
The modern psychodynamic discovery that one's mood is literally controlled by the relevant hormones - what state you are in, what mood you are in, including all your joys and sorrows, it's all up to the hormones, and that's deadly.
Moving on to the experience when depressed.
Loss of concentration:
Normally, when a person is faced with an event, they instinctively focus their attention on the event itself, and on the effects of the event itself. For example, if you're not getting good grades, you'll naturally think of effective ways to improve, such as making a study plan, working harder, etc.
This is a very important part of the process.
But when depression strikes, your attention is uncontrollably drawn to the subtleties of the event rather than to the event itself. Such as changes in moods, people, and even the physical location of tables and chairs that come with the event. All of this causes your energy to be caught up in all sorts of little things that have no effect on reality, until it drains you of your entire essence.
Isolation from reality:
Depression is like a layer of gray paste on your brain, which separates it from the outside world, leaving your whole world alone in a self-imposed cranium, and making it impossible for you to think or concentrate.
What does it mean to "cut off your brain from the outside world"?
In a normal person, people's feelings of happiness and sadness are often harmonized with their own perceptions and realities, whereas in a depressed state, your emotional state is often independent of your realities and current perceptions.
Similarly as a normal person because of bad test scores, his mood is greatly affected, and he becomes sullen. And then he changes his previous actual situation through hard work, and his grades improve. At this point, his previous problem has been positively feedback, the previous "bad performance" cognition is replaced by a new cognition of "my performance has improved", and the corresponding emotional distress gradually disappears. In other words, his emotional state matched his current cognition and reality.
The problem was solved.
And what about the depressed person's so-called "isolation of the brain from the outside world"?
It's as if your brain is cut off from the outside world by some dark force, and there's little you can do to normalize your mood in any effective way. Even if the fact that my grades have really skyrocketed is already there, it's hard to generate a new perception from the change in reality and then connect this new perception with the current mood. So a change in reality has very little effect on improving one's mood.
Ultimately, the cause of my low mood is not something that a normal person can analyze and self-analyze to find the exact source, and then improve it to improve their mood.
Your emotional state doesn't match the perception and reality of the moment, you can't find an exact source that gives you a strong desire and motivation to change the situation, and your whole world is painted gray.
As mentioned above, "the brain of a depressed person lacks 5-hydroxytryptamine and norepinephrine, two hormones related to mood: the hormones are responsible for what state you are in, what mood you are in, and what you feel, including all of your joys and sorrows, which is very fatal. It's deadly." Maybe that's why.
The state of nothingness:
From time to time, you experience a separation between yourself and your feelings, like a split wooden person existing in the world. From looking at myself in the mirror while washing up in the morning, to attending classes during the day, to having a late night snack with my classmates and then going home again alone during the evening study session - the usual behavior of the past now everything seems to have become extremely laborious ......
"It was as if I had been thrown into a dark, damp hole. It was full of spiders and ants and scorpions and vipers and all sorts of creepy things. It was as if they were writhing and hissing all around me, releasing slime and venomous juices at me."
My whole world was taken over by fear and pessimism, the feeling that there would never be a spring in my step again, that I was tired of the world, and the world had abandoned me.
"When I came home from studying late one night, I stood alone at the window, and outside there was only darkness and the sound of rain. I closed my eyes, and the world immediately stood still: there was only the sound of rain outside, and inside my body there was only the sound of my beating heart and my own tired brain. Beyond that, there was nothing else in my world."
Your mind becomes extremely subtle, your attention wanders. When a stranger walks in front of you, if he sweeps you with a very casual glance, it's enough to make you think. You will spend a lot of time thinking about what that look means, whether he has any intentions, what he does for a living ......, perhaps a normal person will subconsciously make similar associations, but for the depressed person, these sideways subtle things is all they have, the whole body and mind trapped in which can not be extricated.
That's pretty much the experience of being wrapped up in depression.
Of course, the above categorization is not rigorous and is only for the reader's understanding.
I will say this: I can't imagine how I would have gotten through it if I had been depressed alone and not manic, and I still think back to my manic state.
Manic
If depression is an emotional category, mania for me is more cognitive.
Depression pulls you down to the bottom of the emotional scale, while mania sends your thoughts into the sky, and at the same time, these strange thoughts are exaggerated to the point of provoking a high level of emotion. It was only when I was trapped in a manic state that my depression lifted. I often subconsciously put myself in a manic state to escape the extreme pain of depression. The two were like angels and demons, and they were always playing a game to see which one would rule me.
Normal people see the world with both eyes, whereas bipolar people don't see the world with both eyes, they see the world with "imagery".
Mania allows me to see a side of the world that I couldn't feel at all before. I could feel my brain operating without resistance, as if I could instantly distill the core elements of things, sniff out the most hidden desires of the human heart, and with extreme clarity, the whole law of the world was clear at a glance.
To say a few representative examples of the manic state in order to see the leopard in the tube.
1. A staged math test in your junior year of high school. Everyone was doing the math. I see a girl fretting over a math problem, and when I look at her face as she anxiously calculates on the manuscript paper, my attention is immediately drawn to this expression, as if I can smell her entire animalistic desire being suppressed by the rules and regulations of civilization - the deepest part of this expression seems to be telling you that she is under some kind of pressure to to engage in something that was not in keeping with her age. I was struck by the feeling that people like us, in the throes of hormonal puberty, should have stripped off our clothes millions of years ago and chased and frolicked naked across the savannah, releasing their hormones to the fullest. The sense of that image is very realistically presented in your mind. Subsequently compared with the real situation, I can not help but laugh out loud in the examination room.
It's a stretch isn't it? The manic state is filled with this fly-like perspective of intention.
Afterward, it was like I knew all the "animal languages". I can fully understand the state of mind of a lion hunting, a tiger enjoying its food, and a pet dog rolling around in the grass. ...... At that time, the only thing I wanted to do was to go to the market and buy a piece of raw pork or beef, and experience the state of the beasts when they were eating.
This psychological empathy has no superfluous concepts and abstract labels, it is a more primitive and pure emotional **** reluctance. I've even found that in the animal kingdom, which is sparse on labeling such as language and words, this primitive form of communication is nearly universal, but as we age, this purity is gradually replaced by abstract and undisciplined concepts that rub off on us, but they don't go away all the time and remain in the depths of your being.
On my way home afterward I saw a woman lecturing her child in front of her door, and I heard the child's heartbreaking cries. They were accompanied by a couple of neighbors who looked on as if they were watching, as if the child's shrill cries were not a big deal to them, and that they had become accustomed to it.
I couldn't bear to see this scene. I couldn't bear the thought of adults treating a child's cries so casually and doing nothing about it. I heard in that child's shrill cry a solemnity of extreme sadness, a fatal statement and a shocking desire for self-destruction in the depths of human nature.
3. Group sex in the square. On weekends, when I go to school from my house, I have to pass through a square on the way to transfer to the bus. This is probably the earliest group of square dance music loyalists in China. Once I saw a middle-aged woman in the front row of the square, her movement is very standard, the dance through a perverse confidence, especially compelling.
Originally, this activity is a very good way for people of this age to spend time, but I saw from her movements and eyes seriously repressed sexual desire - every movement of her every eye seems to have become the exit of her release of sexual repression, as if to tell the side of all the male companions: I'm in heat, I am! She is desperate for the male gaze and attention, be attracted to me!
Perhaps she's so comfortable in her normal life that she can't accept that she's a flesh-dominant animal who needs a seemingly noble spiritual reason to cover up. But at this moment, she is so caught up in the desire for unstoppable sexual expression that she no longer needs to be scrupulous and outspoken in revealing that unseemly lust. I can immediately visualize scenes of her copulating with several males who have fallen for her sexual charms, and isn't her self-sufficient and evil eye just as she is now?
The laws of physics of image.
Suppose you read this sentence in a book, "Solar energy is the source of energy for all living things on Earth."
There's a kind of logical span to this conclusion, so the first reaction is puzzlement, but on reflection, you'd think that's largely true. This is a normal human thought process.
What about mania? Your mind is in and out of control, and your attention is extremely fine-tuned.
You can instantly build a chain of logic to any conclusion, and it's all-encompassing. All of your mental attention is immediately focused on this conclusion, and in that instant, (such as the above sentence) your head like a slide show flashed one by one how single-celled organisms evolved into plants, how plants use sunlight for photosynthesis to synthesize carbohydrates (including photosynthesis of all sorts of details are also done in an instant in the instant), how all kinds of animals from the plants to establish the food chain (cows eat grass, people eat beef, etc.), and how to build a food chain. Cows eat grass, humans eat beef, etc.), where humans are in the food chain ...... In a second (maybe less), you will fully understand the meaning behind this statement, how solar energy exists as a power source. You feel that your perceptions are closely aligned with the way nature originally works, your mind is extremely fluid and unobstructed, and your entire spirit is vibrating with nature in the deepest recesses of your body***. This strange peak experience happens all the time.
In high school, because of bipolar disorder, a lot of your classes were crap, and even though you thought you could do better, your mind was so scattered and jumpy that you couldn't control your attention. Miraculously, in physics subjects, this mania helped you out nicely.
While others are still memorizing basic physics formulas like the law of buoyancy or F=ma, you've been able to control them through that purer physical intuition. In physical intuition, you can precisely perceive the quantitative correspondence between F and ma. Complicating it a bit, as in the case of the gravitational formula F= G*mM/r, you can still quickly translate a mathematical geometric model in your head, which geometrically demonstrates why gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance, how the masses interact with each other to affect the gravitational factor, and so on.
The end result is that most physics formulas become like cartoons to you, because you don't understand them in terms of abstract definitions and concepts, but rather in terms of a purer "natural intuition". Therefore, with a strong physical intuition, the author's physics is very fast, basically through the book without any extracurricular assistance, most of the test questions are solved in seconds.
Stereoscopic musicality.
When we listen to music when we are out of love, in love, or when a major event occurs, we will find that the music can express your emotions and state, and we will even be able to listen to the song while the lyrics and the tune of the rise and fall of the concept of a meaningful story and scene.
What about mania? You don't need to be in love to achieve the same effect, and it's even better.
You can sense how the chords and lyrics of the song are gradually driving your emotions up, and even what kind of mental state the songwriter was in when he wrote it. When you go deeper, you can even find out what kind of preparation you need to do to compose a pop song, what key points you need to pay attention to, and so on. The feeling at the end was that if I had basic vocal knowledge, I could create a stirring piece of pop music given an afternoon.
It's a pipe dream now, but at the time it was a no-brainer (or at least I was confident that I could).
A strange separation of mind and body.
A normal person walking. Ordinary flavorless things because we're so used to them. When mania reaches a certain point, my body separates from my will: all the parts of your body are an extremely foreign thing to your will. It's like when you put on swimming goggles and look at the world in the water under the pool, you see a different vision than on the ground, a strange freshness.
In addition to the positive experience, there are many intolerable complications of a manic state. Mental illness is ultimately a disease, not an "ability".
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