Saturday, October 31, 2009
Why is manic depression referred to as Bipolar?
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What better question for me to answer! I am bi-polar! I have researched this.
Bipolar is a way to describe the way mood shifts from one end of the affective spectrum (say manic) to the other end, or pole, of the spectrum (lets call that one depression). Bipolar's full name is actually Bipolar Affective Disorder.
So to recap...
One pole is depression
One pole is mania
The correct prefix for two is Bi
hence bipolar!
I hate this f*cking disease...
2 opposites.im guessing.
because the psychologists hate scientists and wanna be more professional!
dont know because they are two different things.
bipolar: most deal with long periods of up or down.
Manic Depression : you litarly go up and down in moods very quickly to the point of it becomes manic..one second your happy and the next your not and your down in the pit of dispare.
so it's someone not refering to them in the correct way
Because it is opposite ends of the spectrum. Manic state is a High, depression is a Low. Polar Opposite. They go from the Highs to the Lows and back.
Because the person麓s mood swings from one pole to the next. It has two sides, euphoria and depression.
when you're a manic depressant, you often switch from one extreme of emotion to the other, hence "bi" (two) "polar" (poles).
It is only one form of depression, not applied to all. called so because it is classed as a personality diorder, like multiple personality syndrome, hence bi-polar, it means 2 extremes (i.e of personality).
because there are intense periods of ups and then sudden crashes in to depresion.
a maniac depression is the same as bipolar bbecause when you are bipolar you freak out by being happy one minute and turning into a total butthead!
2 poles, your "manic" pole/phase where you are extremley energetic etc., and your "depression" pole/phase where your are very depressed, the bipolar just refers to 2 opposite extremes
because they are at two different sides of the spectrum... bi meaning 2 and polar referring to the different polar regions in the world north pole and south pole.
manic being overly excited and depression being extremely sad, two different end of the emotional spectrum.
The reason is that the manic part, or mania, is the high pole, and the the depressive part, or depression, is the low. Bipolar refers to the two extremes that bipolar people tend to experience in life, either high or low.
Like the two poles. one is far from the other, extremes. The high then the low. The up and down of the mood swings are "Poles apart."
Bi means two BTW.
Because manic depression is when you have episodes of mania (hyper, happy, extreme high) and depression (sadness, hopelessness, helplessness). Bi meaning 2.polar refering to poles.one pole (extreme) to another
i just googled your question and there is no real clear answer.
just. one side of the brain is not happy with the other side.
and even that answer wasn't very clear,
No when my husband was told he was bi polor the doctor brought up manic depression as well..
i believe manic depression your constantly depressed..but my husband is bipolor so i cant confirm that
where bi polor..you get "manic" and your mood goes from..happy as hell to..depressed and angry in the snap of a finger..and theres so many other side effects of being bipolor..such as over spending..and believe me..my husband spends when he gets manic..or losing sleep..but hes the oppisite he always has to sleep your best bet would be to go to webmd.com and type in both to find the actual differences
I'm not sure that even the people that gives these diagnosis knows... I believe they just put these "labels" out random to hand out more medication produced by billion dollar medication companies... Think about it!
Think of the North and South Poles as being "polar opposites",similar to the intense mood swings of a manic
depressive.ergo bi (two) polar. In manic depression,
there is either a wildly excited state or a very down ,depressed state, making that person extremely unbalanced.
2 different things.. I have depression.. but sometimes I do feel bipolar.
It's the same thing. Manic Depressive Illness was used in the past, "Bipolar" is a more modern term for the same thing. They probably changed the name because few became full manic, rather they were hypo-manic so it was a misnomer from the start.
There really is NO difference between the two; bipolar is a later term and I would not doubt because it is easier for the general public to say aka shorter; i personally dislike the latter term and refer to the former when asked about myself.
because the condition produces such extreme mood swings from deep depression to manic that it is like the difference in the north pole and the south pole.
because bipolar consists of 2 phases.the part where u may be high or in old fashioned terms "hysteria"; then u usually come crashing down in2 a depression, hence the defenition: mani-depression
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