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Mania
Mania is most closely associated with Bipolar disorder and can be explained as abnormal and persistently increased goal-directed activity with abnormally high levels of energy, hyperactivity, extreme mood change and in a sense a person being struck by hysteria.
Mania is a persistent elevated expansion of a particular mood which to be categorised under mania should last for a minimum period of 1 week and should be present for most part of the day.
Manic episodes are a result of over activity of dopamine receptor and it ranges from mild, moderate to extreme mania.
3 or more of the following symptoms should be present, for it to be diagnosed as mania
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Inflated self esteem
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Grandiosity or big thoughts
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Becoming more talkative than usual
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Decreased need for sleep
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Becomes easily distracted (attention easily drawn to unimportant happenings, objects)
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Subjective experience that his/her thoughts are racing
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Increase in goal directed activity (socially, at office, school, college or sexual performance)
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Irrelevant non-goal directed activity
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Excessive involvement in activities that have high risk for negative consequences (foolish business investments, sexual indiscretions, unstoppable shopping sprees)
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