Manic depression or as it is also known Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness that causes the sufferer to have rapid shifts in mood of such a magnitude to affect an individuals normal functioning.

The symptoms of manic depression are quite wide ranging. They normally include large mood swings, ranging from an extreme high, occasionally with irritability, to an extremely low and hopeless mood and back again. In between these two poles of mood are periods of normal mood. As a ratio, the low and depressive mood is most common at a ratio of 3 to 1 manic, or high, mood.

Manic Depression Symptoms – Manic Episode

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Depression is a listed mental disorder which includes altered mood; it may occur daily associated with diminished interest or pleasure in most or all of the activities.Depression is considered to be a disorder. This is because it involves everything in the patient’s body, mood and thoughts.Anyone who has this won’t be able to eat properly, sleep well, think about oneself and practically do anything.Depression affects teenagers, pensioners and everyone in between; married people, single people, rich and poor.

Depression is an illness and has to be treated. It will not just go away. Depression can be cured by proper treatment. You are not alone. Millions of people across the world suffer from depression.

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My mum is 52 and for about the last 8 years she has been drinking heavily, i personally think she has all the symptoms of depression and is foolishly self medicating with the alcohol (which we all know will make things worse as alcohol is a depressant) She insists that she is just fed up with life at the moment, not depressed, but for at least the last 6months she has been crying every day. I went to the doctors with her last week to try to get them to help in any way they could but they have blamed everything on her drinking. Yes she is a heavy drinker and yes she has in the past had problems with it. But i dont know of an alcoholic who can just give up on a whim and have no ill effects. She quite frequently will stop for weeks but thats coz she wants to not because she has to. Do you think anti depressants could be an option? If she were to have a couple of cans of larger would she suffer any bad effects?
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Im in England

I am on Effexor and am experiencing several symptoms of depression but I do drink several times a week so I wanted to know if it’s because of the alcohol or I am becoming immune to the medication (which has happened to me before.) Thanks!