Bipolar disorder

DSM category: Bipolar and related disorders

Also known as 

• Manic-depression
• BPD
  

 

Symptoms

• Anxiety 
• Depression
• Self-harm
• Recreational drug use
• Hypersexuality  
• Psychosis

 

Compare with

• Emotionally unstable (borderline) personality disorder (EUPD / BPD)
  
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  

 

Investigations

Treatment monitoring

• Lithium levels

 

Management 

• Lithium compounds
• Antipsychotics, first-generation (typical)
• Antipsychotics, second-generation (atypical) 
• Carbamazepine
• Lamotrigine
• Valproate