hypomania

Examples of hypomania in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Cyclothymia symptoms are less-intense hypomania and depression that do not meet clinical criteria for hypomania or depression. Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024 In essays, Goodfellow details antidepressant-induced hypomania. Michelle Pugle, Health, 23 Jan. 2023 But anabolic steroids are also associated with anxiety and major mood disorders, including mania, hypomania and major depression. John Leland, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023 And in fact, four people experienced temporary hypomania, i.e. abnormally elevated mood, which is usually seen in bipolar disorder, although none of the patients in this study had a history of bipolar. Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2010 In 1977, five years before his death, Monk was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and hypomania. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022 Godfrey's experience includes episodes of major depression and hypomania (milder than mania) characteristic of bipolar II. Emily Strohm, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022 While hypomania doesn't include psychosis, some people with bipolar 2 may take antipsychotic drugs if their depression involves hallucinations or delusions. Ashley Abramson, Health.com, 2 Nov. 2021 Typically, hypomania doesn’t affect your ability to work, and episodes last about four days, according to the Cleveland Clinic8. Ashley Abramson, SELF, 28 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypomania
Noun
  • Ahead of his sentencing in 2009, Groves received two evaluations — one doctor diagnosed him with schizophrenia and deemed him legally insane at the time of the murder, while another doctor claimed the opposite.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Around two-thirds of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD) and about half of people diagnosed with schizophrenia will experience delusions of grandeur.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Some are faced with a more lethal and rare diagnosis: postpartum psychosis.
    Theara Coleman, theweek, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Such reasoning often derives from depression rather than psychosis, though some clinicians are reluctant to draw a categorical distinction.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Instead of tight paranoia as the characters attempt to figure out which one of them is hosting Assassin, episode seven has everybody casually just going about their business and doing things that are not at all conducive to determining Assassin’s identity.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Throughout the conference, anti-government paranoia and misinformation about pandemic policies were strong on the wing.
    Michael A. Hiltzik, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Alcohol can make mania and psychosis even more extreme.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Episodes of depression and mania or hypomania (less intense than mania) can cycle with unpredictable timing.
    Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Sara Schmidt was 35 years old when her mother, Brenda, who had early onset Parkinson's and dementia, took a bad fall in 2021.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Investigators also found that Alzheimer’s disease was more accurately detected in individuals who had already progressed to dementia, compared to those with mild cognitive decline who were less likely to have this diagnosis regardless.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The principal events that establish this negative dynamic in their relationship—and, indeed, if such a thing were possible, the underlying etiology of Mother’s fundamental neurosis—lie beyond the scope of her pages and any living recall.
    Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Her flair for humor, going to core of the characters’ neuroses and idiosyncrasies, as well as for drama, plumbing the depths of their fears and demons, resulted in wide-ranging performances.
    Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024

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