4. Mania

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उन्माद (Mania)

या आजारामध्ये स्वतः मोठी व्यक्ती आहे असे समजणे, मोठमोठ्या गोष्टी करणे, अनोळखी माणसांशी जास्त बोलणे, जास्त खूष राहणे, अनावश्यक पैसे खर्च करणे, नवनवीन कपडे किंवा वस्तू खरेदी करणे, सामानाची तोड-फोड, नासधूस करणे इत्यादी.

In this Mania condition patient feels be feels great, talks big things, feels happy, joyful, spending sprees ,some patients becomes overactive / Aggressive, violent with Decreased need of sleep. May get grandiose ideas etc.
Mania represents a more severe form of abnormally elevated mood than Hypomania
Patients with Hypomania have insight into their illness.
Patients with Mania tend not to have insight.
Patients with Hypomania never have psychotic symptoms (the diagnosis would become Mania)
Patients with Mania may or may not have psychotic symptoms

CLINICAL FEATURES OF MANIA

Elevated or irritable mood that is clearly abnormal
Severe interference to personal functioning
Increased activity/ restlessness
Increased energy
Increased talkativeness (‘pressure of speech’)
Flight of ideas/ ‘racing thoughts’
Disinhibition / inappropriate behaviour (including sexual)
Grandiosity/increased self-esteem
Decreased (need for) sleep
Irresponsible behaviour: Over-spending, starting unrealistic enterprises
Increased perceptual sensitivity: hyperacusis, seeing colors as vivid

CLINICAL FEATURES OF HYPOMANIA

Elevated or irritable mood that is clearly abnormal for the person
Increased activity/ restlessness
Increased energy
Increased talkativeness
Decreased concentration / easily distractible
Decreased (need for) sleep
Over-familiarity/increased sociability

PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN MANIA

Both delusions and hallucinations can occur
Mood-congruent psychotic symptoms:
Grandiose delusions
Voices telling the individual that he/she has superhuman powers
Mood-incongruent psychotic symptoms:
Delusions of reference or persecution
Voices speaking about affectively neutral topics
(Psychotic symptoms do not occur in Hypomania)

MANAGEMENT OF MANIA/ HYPOMANIA

If patient was being treated for depression:
Stop anti-depressant
First-line treatment (either one of the following):
Oral atypical antipsychotic
Divalproex Sodium
Lithium
(Carbamazepine)

If needed :

Short-term benzodiazepine (oral or IM)
Short-term hypnotic
If patient responds well to a single first-line drug: Continue as maintenance treatment
If patient does not respond well/ develops major side-effects to the drug: Change to another first-line drug
If patient responds partially to a single first-line drug: Add a second first-line drug, (For severe, treatment-resistant mania: ECT may be an option)