hypomania

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Recent Examples of hypomania Cyclothymia symptoms are less-intense hypomania and depression that do not meet clinical criteria for hypomania or depression. Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024 In essays, Goodfellow details antidepressant-induced hypomania. Michelle Pugle, Health, 23 Jan. 2023 But anabolic steroids are also associated with anxiety and major mood disorders, including mania, hypomania and major depression. John Leland, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023 And in fact, four people experienced temporary hypomania, i.e. abnormally elevated mood, which is usually seen in bipolar disorder, although none of the patients in this study had a history of bipolar. Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2010 In 1977, five years before his death, Monk was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hypomania. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022 Godfrey's experience includes episodes of major depression and hypomania (milder than mania) characteristic of bipolar II. Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022 While hypomania doesn't include psychosis, some people with bipolar 2 may take antipsychotic drugs if their depression involves hallucinations or delusions. Ashley Abramson, Health.com, 2 Nov. 2021 Typically, hypomania doesn’t affect your ability to work, and episodes last about four days, according to the Cleveland Clinic8. Ashley Abramson, SELF, 28 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypomania
Noun
  • In the early 1900s, autism was described as a symptom of the most severe cases of schizophrenia, and it was considered a psychiatric disorder for many years.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Some of the family try to avoid discussions about schizophrenia.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As an additional important benefit, when the Islamic world sees that Hamas has lost its hold on the Strip and that the nightmare of Hamas has been replaced with a new reality of peace and prosperity, the suicidal psychosis of radical Islam will suffer a crushing blow.
    David Friedman, Newsweek, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike Celeste, and unlike Howard Roark in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, who stood for the artist’s right to individual integrity, Toth’s psychosis derives from a pessimistic view of history.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In particular, thrillers that have elements of paranoia.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Under house arrest, Mary stoked the fires of Elizabeth’s paranoia.
    Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Meta had to rebuild their data centers by racking billions of dollars worth of GPUs, years before the current Gen AI mania.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
  • But, even that can be viewed as a feature, not a bug, as George and Harold’s artistic hubris is essential to the mania and meta-humor that ensues.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Thousands of researchers in my field dedicate their lives to understanding the brain, hoping to develop treatments for learning disabilities, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and dementia.
    Jessica Cantlon, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The agencies fund critical research in diseases such as diabetes, cancer and dementia.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Obviously, not all of it, because everyone has their own neuroses about what’s cool and what’s not cool or whatever, and that’s tough when there’s six people.
    Ian Cohen, Pitchfork, 30 Jan. 2025
  • But in an atmosphere where the gentle Peanuts was the cartoon hit of the day, there were no takers for his radical cartooning that satirized the neuroses and hypocrisies of society — until the Voice was launched.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Hypomania.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypomania. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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