Manic depression is mental disease where a patient experiences extreme high or low mood swings occur suddenly with any reason. Such mood fluctuation causes surprise and apprehension for people around that person suffering from Manic Depression. This is why Manic Depression is also commonly known as Bipolar Depression, for it can cause considerable mood swings where a person may feel good at one point of time and feel miserable or pathetic at next instance. Such mood changes are not viable for people and have potential to throw their life out of balance.

When he/she experience high end Symptoms it is known as Manic Symptoms and while low end is known as Hypo Symptoms or Depressive Symptoms. Manic Depression is hard to identify in a person as he/she may go back to normal state after they suffer a session of depression. Additionally, it is important to note signs of Manic Symptoms observed in patients that suffer either from Manic or high end illness.

Manic Symptoms:

1) People who suffer Manic Depression can be identified by their extreme euphoric mood or in other words extreme kindness.
2) They contain element of easily being drawn in to provocation, even in small arguments over petty issues.
3) Face lack of concentration problem thus are unable to carry out any work or responsibilities. This deficiency alone can turn them in to potato couch, that it making them lazy and irresponsible towards their life.
4) Due to negative thoughts bombarding their brain, you will notice people under Manic symptoms frequently changing topics while talking. Rather, they cannot stick to one subject of conversation and unusually talk in faster tone making listener difficult to understand.
5) It is also observed that manic depression patients go through restlessness and hyper activity state. In such condition they have excessively high energy levels.
6) They may also involve in increase sexual drive and get mixed ideas as well as incoherence.
7) They live in denial state, not ready to accept that anything is wrong with them and have very poor judgment and irritable behavior.
8) Believe they are special and have imaginative powers with abilities to do anything they want. Adding on, they often get very aggressive and involve in self abuse by addicting themselves to alcohol, sleeping pills and others.
9) They suffer inadequate sleep and spend entire night awake. Instead to feeling tire because of lack of proper sleep, they are instead very energetic.


Depressive Symptoms

People suffering from Depressed mode of Manic Depression disorder usually suffer from following Symptoms such as

1) Spend much time in sad state for extremely longer days. As this sad state continues, they begin to feel anxious and sense of emptiness over powers them. Enabling them to face more miserable and pathetic conditions.

2) They are not confident with their life and accept feeling of being hopeless and stay pessimistic all the time.
3) There is loss of sexual desire and contain very low energy levels.
Lose interest in any activities that can bring joy to them. They lose ability to feel pleasurable and therefore prefer to stay alone all the time.
4) They also go through forgetfulness, lack of concentration, restlessness, extreme irritability and growing sense of guilt or worthless in them.


Person under Manic Depression can gain or lose weight drastically. Some have abnormal diet, and hence lose weight. While others can gain weight as they do no work, prefer to stay idle.

People need to spend time to learn signs of depression and the effect it can produce on patient. By educating oneself, you are helping yourself preserving against getting Depression.