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What is the medical term meaning Numerous periods of mania and depression but not of long duration no psychotic features?
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Short depressive periods and moods with no psychotic features?
major depression
Can you hear voices when you are depressed?
Yes. This is called "depression with psychotic features". Fortunately, it is treatable by antipsychotics and antidepressants.
How do you fix a depression patient without antipsychotic drugs?
Actually antipsychotics are usually unnecessary for the treatment of depression, unless psychotic features are present. Antidepressants are normally used.
What type of mental illness causes hallucinations?
Hallucinations can be present in psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder, etc. ), bipolar disorder, major depression with psychotic features, delirium, or dementia.
What is a psychotic break?
A psychotic break is a break from reality. Psychotic breaks often involve hallucinations or delusions.
What is the disorder where you hear voices?
There are many mental illnesses where you may hallucinate. They include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, shared psychotic disorder, brief psychotic disorder, substance-induced psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression with psychotic features, delirium, and dementia. However, when someone talks about a mental illness in which you "hear things" or "see things" it will usually be schizophrenia.
Can bipolar depression and psychosis coexist?
Yes, the diagnosis is Bipolar Depressive Episode with Psychotic Features (DSM 5 diagnostic code: 296.54, ICD 10 diagnostic code: F31.5).
Can manic depression cause hallucinations?
Absolutely. Type 1 Bipolar Affective Disorder (what one would classically call "manic-depression") at its most severe can cause psychotic symptoms of all sorts, particularly in the manic phase. Delusions of grandeur and delusions of persecution are common psychotic features associated with the manic phase of type 1 Bipolar disorder. Delusional thinking alone, in fact, is far more common as a psychotic feature when psychotic features are present, though frank hallucinations can also occur in the most severe cases. If left untreated in severe manias this may progress to hallucinatory experiences particularly; -auditory hallucinations -olfactory hallucinations Visual hallucinations, more commonly reported among those with true psychotic disorders, are rarer, though they are reported.
What are antips?
Antipsychotics are a class of medications used to treat psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking. They work by blocking certain neurotransmitters in the brain, helping to reduce symptoms of psychosis. Antipsychotics can be used to treat conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression with psychotic features.
Bipolar disorder you with psychotic features?
There can be some small features like uneven ears or eyes and a generally uneven face structure in rare faces. I would be care using the word 'psychotic' next time.
What is the duration of Creature Features?
The duration of Creature Features is -10800.0 seconds.
What are psychotic features?
signs of mental instability, being mad, deranged or disturbed
