Question by dbsahowardcounty: What is the difference between depression and bipolar disorder?
Depression is prolonged sandness or unexplained crying spells, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, irriability, anger, agitation, worry, anxitey, pessimsim, indifference, loss of energy, persistent lethargy, unexplained aches and pains, feeling of guilt, worthlessnes and/or hopleness, inability to take pleasure in former interests, social withdrawal, excessive consumption of alcohol or use of chemical substances and recurring thoughts of death or suicide.
Bipolar – Increased physcial and mental activity and energy, heightened mood, exaggerated optimism and self-confidence, excessive irriability, aggressive behavior, decreased need for sleep with out experiencing fatigue, grandiose delusions, inflated sense of self-importance, racing speech, racing thoughts, flight of ideas, impulsiveness, poor judgement, distractibilty, reckless behavior such as spending sprees, rash business decisions, erratic driving and sexual indiscretions, and most severe cases, delusions and hallucination
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Answer by elric101
yoiu’ve answered it yourself,with bipolar you have ups and downs,with depression only downs.
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Do you actually have a question. It appears that you’ve asked and answered yourself.
when you are depressed you don’t want to do anything and sleeping is about all you want to do. just don’t feel like you have the energy for anything. when you have bi polar you are on a manic high most of the time. you can’t sleep calm down and always want to go. everything is very fast. your moods change you just feel like you can’t stop or sleep.
The only difference i can think of is cause of death. Other then if you have bipolar you suffer depression.Cause of death for depression most likely (suicide).Cause of death with bipolar (someone else).