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Bipolar affective disorder requires proper treatment. Manic-depressive psychosis, or BAD, is a severe mental illness. Patients’ quality of life declines, severe depressive states occur and the risk of suicide increases, so it is necessary to see specialists in time.
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness
BAD is a disorder that psychiatrists consider endogenous in nature. The main cause is an imbalance of biologically active chemicals in the brain. People with a family history of severe mental illness are at risk.
Bipolar disorder can have various causes:
- Heredity. Genetics contribute to the disease in 70% of cases.
- Environment. External factors are the trigger in 30% of cases, of which 22% are stressful situations, conflicts at home and work, or the death of a loved one. Drug or alcohol use can also be a trigger. In 8% of cases the disorder appears for no apparent reason.
Affective disorder appears suddenly and develops in people aged 20 to 30, but it may remain unrecognized for a long time if the patient ignores the symptoms or is misdiagnosed.
Bipolar disorder and its classification
There is no clear classification of affective disorder. The division is based on the symptoms observed in the patient.
The following types are distinguished:
- unipolar (only manic or only depressive episodes);
- bipolar (with alternating phases of one direction);
- distinctly bipolar (episodes of equal intensity and duration).
In the American classification, bipolar I disorder is a condition with pronounced, distinct manic phases. The second type does not have these symptoms; it involves milder hypomanic episodes. However, the second type can easily turn into a state with pronounced mania, which greatly complicates diagnosis.
There is also an opinion that bipolar II disorder and severe unipolar depression have similar manifestations. The international classification distinguishes two variants: mania and depression. This typology is used in Ukrainian medicine.
The classification based on the course of the disease distinguishes the following types:
- unipolar or monopolar;
- periodic mania (pronounced manic symptoms alternating with intermediate phases);
- periodic depression (short-term recurrent bipolar depression);
- regularly alternating (a constant sequence: manic phase – intermediate phase – depression – intermediate phase);
- irregularly alternating (episodes in different directions alternate without a clear sequence, but with an interphase);
- double (both phases follow one another, then an interphase);
- continuous (manic depression, where episodes alternate in a clear sequence with no interphase).
