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
  • New data presented last week at the 2024 Psych Congress suggests continued improvements in symptoms of schizophrenia with long-term treatment.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The project dives deep into the brilliant mind of Sylvia Frumkin, played by Shira Haas, a woman trapped in the grip of schizophrenia as her family struggles to navigate the mental health system during a New York City blackout.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Some are faced with a more lethal and rare diagnosis: postpartum psychosis.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Such reasoning often derives from depression rather than psychosis, though some clinicians are reluctant to draw a categorical distinction.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Recent episodes of Aaron Hernandez have excelled by stepping outside Aaron’s point of view, but this finale immerses us back in his state of mind, forcing us to experience his harrowing final days and really understand what his paranoia and insecurity felt like.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • In the immediate aftermath of a major assassination, groups certainly can experience communications breakdowns, confusion, grief, and paranoia.
    Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • An essential difference is that episodes of bipolar mania cause symptoms at any time of the day and usually last for weeks or longer, while sundowning occurs in the evening hours.
    Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Like Martin a decade before it, vampirism is presented as a possible mental illness, and Vampire’s Kiss further deepens the metaphor by making Cage’s increasing mania and lusting for women an extension of the toxic masculinity that dominated offices in the ‘80s and is still a terrible force today.
    James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Her grandmother has dementia and has to take 13 different medications.
    Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Her mother, already difficult, is struggling with dementia, hence the road trip, which is meant to resettle her into Robin’s home.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The principal events that establish this negative dynamic in their relationship—and, indeed, if such a thing were possible, the underlying etiology of Mother’s fundamental neurosis—lie beyond the scope of her pages and any living recall.
    Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Her flair for humor, going to core of the characters’ neuroses and idiosyncrasies, as well as for drama, plumbing the depths of their fears and demons, resulted in wide-ranging performances.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024

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