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Manic Depression: Manic Depression Symptoms
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For a diagnosis of manic depression to be made, an individual must exhibit both depressive and manic symptoms to a varying degree, depending upon the severity of the disorder. The symptoms of manic depression may resemble other psychiatric conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
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Psychosis is another phenomenon that can be observed as a manic depression symptom. It occurs in both manic and depressive modes of the disorder. It is characterized by hallucination and delusion that is sometimes mistaken for schizophrenia (another form of mental disorder that ... manifests hallucination and delusion).
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[T]he occurrence of depressive symptoms predominated in 31.9% of total follow-up weeks, followed by manic/hypomanic in 8.9 % of weeks, and cycling/mixed symptoms in 5.8% of weeks. Interestingly, subsyndromal, minor depressive, and hypomanic symptoms were almost three times more frequent than syndromal-level major depressive and manic symptoms, the team reports" (PsychiatryMatters.MD).
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