[psychok]

Hi everyone , today i have been discharged by the psychiatric clinique with this diagnosis: bipolar disorder, hypomanic episode. They said that was hypomania and not mania because of my good insight and lucidity; but i rember that two days before hospitalization the pressure to move and to be physical occupied was so strong that i yelled like... a crazy, and i almost harm a relative person close to me. So it seems that the fact that i needed to be hospitalized to prevent harm towards me and others and the fact that i needed to get rid of that hyperactivity (psychomotor agitation) were not enough for a diagnosis of a full-blown mania without psychosis. Your thoughts?

[franz kafka]

I thought needing to be hospitalized indicated full mania not hypomania, by definition.

[st0psign]

I think franz is right, if you were in IP because of mania, its mania, not hypomania, and being hospitalized for any period of time during a manic episode is grounds for a BP1 diagnosis as indicated by the DSM-V.

[psychok]

thanks to both you

my first time when i wan hospitalized was 2 years ago: mixed episode (the dagnosis was still based on dsm IV-TR), i guess today would sound like manic eposode with mixed features...