What is the difference?

What is the difference between manic attacks and panic attacks?

[Jikan]

Namaste,

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness characterized by intense mood swings. These mood swings are much more severe than the usual highs and lows that we all experience. While most people will experience a sad or depressed mood due to something bad happening in their lives, someone with a manic depressive illness will often experience depressive episodes or dysthymia for no reason other than the illness itself. They are not depressed because something bad happened to them. The manic episodes or hypomania of bipolar disorder don’t occur because something good happens to them. Bipolar disorder throws the sufferer into distorted mood extremes.

When someone with bipolar disorder has an elevated mood accompanied by impaired judgment and a decreased need for sleep, they are said to be having a manic episode.

Panic attacks are sudden, discrete periods of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems (spastic colon) and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms. The onset of these episodes is typically abrupt, and may have no obvious triggers.

Hope this provides the information you needed.

Michael(Jikan)

[Marebears]

THAT IS ON THE MONEY AND I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!!! I WRITE A JOURNAL EVERY NIGHT AND AFTER ABOUT A MONTH I TOOK IT 2 MY DR. AND LET THEM JUDGE ON THERE OWN!!!!!  GOOD LUCK, MARE~BEAR************