While hypomanic behavior often generates productivity and excitement, it can become troublesome if the subject engages in risky or otherwise inadvisable behaviors, and/or the symptoms manifest themselves in trouble with everyday life events. Other symptoms related to this may include feelings of grandiosity, distractibility, and hypersexuality. According to DSM-5 criteria, hypomania is distinct from mania in that there is no significant functional impairment mania, by DSM-5 definition, does include significant functional impairment and may have psychotic features.Ĭharacteristic behaviors of people experiencing hypomania are a notable decrease in the need for sleep, an overall increase in energy, unusual behaviors and actions, and a markedly distinctive increase in talkativeness and confidence, commonly exhibited with a flight of creative ideas.
SYMPTOMS OF HYPOMANIA FULL
The individual with the condition may experience irritability, not necessarily less severe than full mania in fact, the presence of marked irritability is a documented feature of hypomanic and mixed episodes in bipolar type II. Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a mental and behavioral disorder, characterised essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood ( euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.
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