Bipolar Disorder and Violence

People with bipolar disorder have to deal with many signs and symptoms, including bipolar mania symptoms and hypomania episodes. These can be mixed with severe depressive episodes, occurring separately or simultaneously with manic episodes. Many bipolar patients can often coexist with bipolar disorder and all of the mania symptoms. Understanding the manic behaviors associated with hypomania and severe mania can help you learn to watch out for any early warning signs and signals that present themselves to you.

No matter if you have bipolar I disorder or bipolar II disorder, You must understand the mania symptoms and manic episodes. With bipolar I disorder, full-blown media episodes do occur in while only hypomanic episodes occur in patients with bipolar II disorder. Bipolar I disorder is generally much worse than any of the other types of bipolar that can have psychotic symptoms, severe depression episodes and full-blown mania, varying from different causes and triggers in everyday life, including lack of sleep and too much daily stress..

Euphoric feelings and extremely high optimism are very common in mania and hypomania. Many hypomanic states often start out quite productive in the beginning because of the high amount of energy you may be experiencing. Your creativity may start while you feel inspired . Sooner or later, things end up getting out of control and warning signs and symptoms of severe depression episodes are usually just waiting. Having melancholic lows and extreme highs are part of hypomania and manic episodes. So you may ask the question what is the difference between normal feelings of happiness and manic episodes Mania in the end will always end with a pile of debt, emotional or physical pain, the loss of a job or friendship, the loss of a close relationship and extreme humiliation to the bipolar patient.

Sometimes mania will bring extreme anger and aggression, leading to violence and morbid thoughts. You can easily become demanding and very impatient. Being argumentative and saying sarcastic remarks are very common in patients with full-blown mania. You may even be arrested and sent to jail for fighting or you may explode with your friends and family for the littlest thing. This can cause extreme mood swings and racing thoughts in the person, leading to extreme violence as part of the manic behaviors in each bipolar patient.

It will  seem that you have the ability to do any and everything during the state of hypomania or mania. You will feel like you have an exuberant answers for everyday life. You will find yourself highly sociable and friendly during different phases of manic episode, leaving people attracted to you.  Many individuals with an inflated self-esteem come up with the grandiose idea that God has chosen them as their special person for a special mission in life.

You have the ability to go for many days in a row with only 2 to 4 hours of sleep each night that, is very common during phases of hypomania. During mania, a patient with bipolar disorder symptoms may stay awake for three or four days at the time. You may work for 16 or 18 hours at a time, even without stopping for food. Period of insomnia are also common and related to the decreased need for sleep during manic episodes

The ability to concentrate on one task at a time becomes very difficult and almost impossible during phases of manic or hypomanic episodes. You may have trouble sitting still for longer than 10 minutes at a time, always having to constantly move in having an increased level of energy.

When you’re hypomanic or manic, you will have thoughts literally bombard your brain one after another, without any possible time to think about each in between. You may feel as though your brain is spinning and that you have no ability to stop it or control your thoughts. This may cause you to talk excessively and not have the ability to actually listen to what someone else is saying. It’s like your brain is constantly running only waiting for the other person to close their mouth.. Others can usually not even get a word in, which will become very frustrating for them.

Many times bipolar patients when trying to manage episodes of mania or are hypomania will engage in risky behaviors, such as speeding on the highway, engaging in risky sexual behaviors, go on spending sprees or saying something to your friends or family members you would normally not do. And impulsiveness also leads to making irrational decisions that are uncontrollable for the bipolar patient. You may without any thought, tell your boss off without  thinking about the consequences or make a lifestyle decision that affects everyone around.

It is very common for bipolar I patients that have psychotic symptoms or manic symptoms to engage in substance abuse. Drinking too much alcohol is one of the common symptoms of bipolar patients during severe depressive episodes and manic episodes. This is a warning sign that there is a problem requiring treatment from a psychiatrist. Alcohol abuse is a leading factor in many mood disorders and mental illnesses. Cocaine is also frequently used by bipolar patients.

In adults, bipolar disorder and rage can manifest with seemingly unprovoked occasions of aggressiveness and impulsivity - vocal and/or physical.
Throwing objects against walls or at other people or breaking furniture.

One of the worst feelings is the feeling of shame that many bipolar sufferers feel after being on the offensive end one of these fits of anger. If you suspect that you or someone close to you  may have bipolar disorder; The first step is to make an appointment with a psychiatrist. A regular doctor or psychologist are not trained like a psychiatrist to recognize the symptoms of bipolar disorder

It is important the people suffering from bipolar disorder get diagnosed early, get treatment, learn to recognize the beginning of anger attacks and learn to deal with them and to help prevent further bipolar rage episodes.

Many bipolar disorder people, if diagnosed correctly and given the proper psychiatric treatment can learn self-control, learn how to cope and live an almost normal life.