manic episode
Euphoric psychiatric crisis
A manic episode is a period of abnormally elevated mood, energy, and activity lasting at least several days.
The person may feel euphoric, sleep very little, talk rapidly, take on ambitious projects, or engage in risky behavior—spending sprees, reckless sex, impulsive decisions.
Manic episodes are a defining feature of bipolar disorder.
She recognized the signs of a manic episode and called her doctor.
- bipolarHaving two opposite poles
- hypomaniaMild manic state
- euphoriaIntense emotional high
- high energyVery lively, intensely active
- insomniaPersistent inability to rest
sleep deprivation · racing thoughts · grandiosity · impulsivity · poor judgment · psychosis · delusions · agitation · restless · sleepless · frenzied · wired · unstoppable · reckless · spending spree · hypersexual · pressured speech · flight of ideas
- flare-upsflare-up, exacerbation, relapse, outbreak, attack
- mental illnessschizophrenia, mental illness, psychosis, bipolar disorder, depression
- Mood Disordersmajor depression, bipolar disorder, dysthymia, cyclothymia, bipolar II
- bipolar disorderhypomania, bipolar II, cyclothymia, mood swings, bipolar depression
- mental crisesnervous breakdown, mental breakdown, mental collapse, mental break, emotional collapse
- emotional outburstsmeltdown, outburst, tantrum, temper tantrum, angry outburst
manic episodedepressive episode
Sustained period of clinical melancholy
lethargy · stupor · catatonia · mental fog · torpor
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