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 

• Inflated self esteem 

• Grandiosity or big thoughts 

• Becoming more talkative than usual 

• Decreased need for sleep 

• Becomes easily distracted (attention easily drawn to unimportant happenings, objects) 

• Subjective experience that his/her thoughts are racing 

• Increase in goal directed activity (socially, at office, school, college or sexual performance) 

• Irrelevant non-goal directed activity 

• Excessive involvement in activities that have high risk for negative consequences (foolish business investments, sexual indiscretions, unstoppable shopping sprees)