Unipolar disorder

Nowadays, many people often encounter problems with emotional disorders. In fact, unipolar disorder is a psychological disorder. Most of the time, it will cause the patient's emotions to be high or low, often accompanied by lovesickness and retardation. Sometimes, the manic and anxious emotions will affect the people and things around them. This situation requires special attention.

Symptoms of unipolar disorder

The clinical manifestations of affective disorders are mainly high or low emotions, accompanied by racing or slow thinking, psychomotor excitement or inhibition. In a manic state, the patient's mood is high, disproportionate to the situation, and the patient may be elated, irritable, agitated, angry, and anxious. In severe cases, mental symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations that are coordinated or inconsistent with the mood may occur. When in a depressed state, the patient is in a bad mood, distressed, sad, pessimistic, desperate, unable to be happy, loses interest, has low self-esteem, and in severe cases develops suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The condition shows a rhythmic change from worse during the day to better at night.

Unipolar disorder often presents with depression, irritability, or anxiety, or a combination of these. However, in latent depression, the depressed mood may not be consciously experienced. This depressed mood is replaced by physical discomfort, and the patient may even use a smiling face as a defensive mask (smiling depression). Some may complain of various pains, fears of disaster, or fears of going crazy. In some cases, because the morbid emotions have reached the point of "wanting to cry but having no tears", if the ability to cry is restored, it means that the condition has improved. People with this type of depression report an inability to experience normal emotions—including sadness, joy, and pleasure—and a feeling that the world has become dull and lifeless. The morbid mood may be accompanied by self-blame, self-defeating thoughts, inability to concentrate, indecisiveness, decreased interest in daily activities, social withdrawal, helplessness and despair, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide.

During both unipolar and bipolar depressive phases, there are pronounced psychomotor and autonomic signs. Patients display psychomotor retardation, or slowness of thought, speech, and general movements, and may even progress to the point of depressive stupor, where all voluntary movements completely disappear. About 15% of depression may have psychotic symptoms, most commonly seen in melancholy.

Whether it is unipolar disorder or bipolar disorder, 15% of people may suffer from depression. Everyone should be familiar with depression, and they also know that the consequences of this disease are very terrible. So if you find that you or someone around you has the above situation, it is best to go to the hospital immediately for diagnosis and treatment.