Hypomania can evolve into mania, or it can switch to serious depression. And you can’t tell which one might happen, because the pattern isn’t predictable. Hypomania Causes and Risk Factors ...

Mania and hypomania are disorders where chemical imbalances in the brain cause an abnormally and persistently elevated mood. While this may sound useful or even enjoyable, in reality, these conditions ...

Mania and hypomania are disorders where chemical imbalances in the brain cause an abnormally and persistently elevated mood. While this may sound useful or even enjoyable, in reality, these conditions ...

Severity: Hypomania is less severe, allowing individuals to function relatively normally, while mania results in severe impairment and may require hospitalisation and confinement in some cases.

Bipolar 1 disorder is diagnosed based on the presence of mania, but hypomania and depression typically form part of the package. While hypomania is often seen as “mania lite” because it shares ...

The main difference between bipolar 1 and 2 is the severity of manic episodes. People with bipolar 1 must experience a manic episode and may or may not experience a major depressive episode.

Both bipolar 1 and bipolar 2 both cause intense mood swings and energy fluctuations. However, the biggest difference is that bipolar 1 causes mania episodes, while bipolar 2 leads to hypomania ...

Is the differentiation between bipolar I and bipolar II disorder an accurate one? The author suggests that alternative approaches to classification of bipolar disorder may provide a more useful ...

“Hypomania differs from mania only by degree of symptom severity and level of impairment,” Michael Thase, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Mood and Anxiety Program at the ...

Antidepressant-associated hypomania did not recur during a 3-year follow-up after antidepressant treatment resumed without a mood stabilizer.