{"id":121759,"date":"2021-02-25T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/?p=121759"},"modified":"2023-03-12T20:06:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:06:49","slug":"what-is-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/what-is-mania.htm","title":{"rendered":"What is Mania? And are you Experiencing It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whatby Andrea M. Darcy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Worried you or a friend are manic depressive? Although not really sure what manic is all about? What is mania, and what symptoms should you look for? <\/span><\/p>\n

What is mania? <\/span><\/h2>\n

Do you sometimes feel good? Very <\/i>good? Top of the world good, in a way that<\/strong> makes you pretty sure you can do anything? Then you might be experiencing mania. <\/span><\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the surprise — you might also experience<\/strong> mania if you have episodes where you feel excessively irritated<\/strong>. <\/span>It\u2019s a myth that mania is only about a blissed out high. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mania is an elevated psychological state where you have more energy, emotions, and sensations than an average person does. This can result in feeling euphoric, but it can also manifest as feeling more irritable<\/a> or enraged<\/a>, called \u2018dysphoric\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What are the symptoms of mania?<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are different ways of diagnosing mental health, depending if you live in<\/strong> America, which uses ‘the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM)<\/a>, or you live elsewhere in the world. Then the manual used is more likely to from the\u00a0World Health Organisation (WHO) and their diagnostic manual the ICD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to mania, <\/strong>the latest versions of both manuals, the DSM-5 and the ICD- 11, tend to agree<\/a>. Mania always entails:<\/p>\n