Bipolar disease is a mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration of a person. These shifts can last for hours, days, weeks or months, and interrupt your ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
This state of mind is characterized by high energy, excitement, and euphoria over a sustained period of time.
During a depressive episode, you experience a low or depressed mood and/or loss of interest in most activities
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Less severe manic periods are known as hypomanic episodes.
The symptoms last every day for most of the day. Episodes may also last for longer periods, such as several days or weeks. You may also experience:
ADHD is a disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development of a brain.
The symptoms can appear as early as between the ages of 3 and 6 and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. The most prominent symptoms are:
A person may have difficulty staying on task, sustaining focus, and staying organized.
A person may seem to move about constantly, excessively fidgets, taps, or talks. In adults, hyperactivity may mean extreme restlessness or talking too much.
A person may act without thinking or have difficulty with self-control. Impulsivity could also include a desire for immediate rewards or the inability to delay gratification. An impulsive person may interrupt others or make important decisions without considering long-term consequences.
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental disorder that affects the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality, and relates to others. It involves psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person can’t tell what’s real from what’s imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality.
Some people have only one psychotic episode, while others have many episodes during a lifetime but lead relatively normal lives in between. Still others may have more trouble functioning over time, with little improvement between full-blown psychotic episodes. Its symptoms fall into three major categories:
Hallucinations, such as hearing voices or seeing things that do not exist, paranoia and exaggerated or distorted perceptions, beliefs and behaviors.
A loss or a decrease in the ability to initiate plans, speak, express emotion or find pleasure.
Confused and disordered thinking and speech, trouble with logical thinking and sometimes bizarre behavior or abnormal movements.
This lifelong disease can’t be cured but can be controlled with proper treatment.
Migraine is a type of headache characterized by recurrent attacks of moderate to severe throbbing and pulsating pain on one side of the head. Attacks can last for hours to days, and the pain can be so severe that it interferes with your daily activities.
For some people, a warning sign known as an aura occurs before or with the headache. An aura can include visual disturbances, such as flashes of light or blind spots, or other disturbances, such as tingling on one side of the face or in an arm or leg and difficulty speaking.
Depression is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. It causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. To be diagnosed with depression, the symptoms must be present for at least two weeks.
Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain characterized by repeated seizures. In patients with seizures, the normal electrical pattern is disrupted by sudden and synchronized bursts of electrical energy that may briefly affect their consciousness, movements or sensations.
Epilepsy is usually diagnosed after a person has had at least two seizures that were not caused by some known medical condition, such as alcohol withdrawal or extremely low blood sugar.
In dementia In dementia, abnormal brain changes trigger a decline in thinking skills, also known as cognitive abilities, severe enough to impair daily life and independent function. They also affect behavior, feelings and relationships.
Common symptom of dementia include:
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurological disorder in which the brain slowly degenerates, leading to problems with memory, daily function and behavior. About 60% to 80% of people who have dementia have Alzheimer’s. It’s a progressive condition, which means it gets worse over time, and it usually affects people over 65 years old.
Alzheimer’s is diagnosed by testing your attention, memory, language, and vision, and looking at images of your brain through MRI.
