Examples of hypomania in the following topics:
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- Bipolar disorders are debilitating mood disorders characterized by periods of mania/hypomania and periods of depression.
- The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania or hypomania depending on the severity or whether there is psychosis.
- Generally, hypomania does not inhibit functioning as mania does, and may even increase productivity.
- Hypomania also tends to be reported less frequently than a distressing, crippling depression, and so people with bipolar II are often misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder.
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- Individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of an elevated or agitated mood known as mania (or hypomania, depending on the severity) alternating with episodes of depression .
- At milder levels of mania, or "hypomania", individuals appear energetic, excitable, and may be highly productive.
- Cyclothymia is considered to be a milder or subthreshold form of bipolar disorder, with the two polar states being dysthymia and hypomania (as opposed to depression and mania in bipolar disorder).
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- The bipolar subtype is distinguished by symptoms of mania, hypomania, or mixed episodes; the depressive subtype is distinguished by symptoms of depression only.
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- Responses are scored to produce a clinical profile composed of 10 scales: hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviance (social deviance), masculinity versus femininity, paranoia, psychasthenia (obsessive/compulsive qualities), schizophrenia, hypomania, and social introversion.