Talk:Mixed affective state

message: The description of behavior during a mixed state seems like it may be intended to be humorous, rather than a good faith description.
73.41.82.251 (talk) 04:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: a lively dance?

message: Current version of this article states, that a treatment option are "anticonvulsants (aka mood stabilizers)", this is, however, misleading. While, apart lithium all other major mood stabilizers are antiepileptics, this doesn't mean that antiepileptics in general are mood stabilizers; much more AEDs may have some mood stabilising potential, but not every AED is necessarily a mood stabilizer. I will change the formulation to somewhat more convenient.--84.163.108.65 23:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medication 

message: If you've ever had to take care of a relation, you'll know that these mixed state zones are the worst.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.173.167 (talk) 21:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worst of the worst 

message: um, that's a very POV statement, wouldn't it seem? Mixed states require medication, period?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.191.11 (talk) 12:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Mixed states require medication" 

message: A mixed state might be best treated with an opiate (i.e. vicodin, percocet, etc.) or a tranquilizer (i.e. xanax, clonazepam) with simultaneous treatment with a mood stabilizer (i.e. lithium or Lamictal) and/or an anti depressant (i.e. prozac, lexapro, zoloft, etc.).
If addiction proposes too much of a problem, an anti-psychotic can be used to calm the patient down. However, many patients will react poorly to anti-psychotic medication. It may cause dystonia, agitation, and and infrequently may be abused.
This is a proposed trajectory of treatment from a sufferer of the disorder.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.218.98 (talk) 00:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed action for medicating mixed state or depressive episodes and potentially manic episodes 

message: This sentence reads as if it were written by someone who has been in a mixed state, which is good in a way, but somehow it needs to be reworded a bit to sound like an encyclopedia entry:
"One may also feel incredibly frustrated in this state, since one may feel like a failure and at the same time have a flight of ideas."
Maybe it's the word "incredibly", or maybe it's the extremely specific combination of feeling like a failure and having a flight of ideas.
John Baez (talk) 06:52, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: One sentence

message: Thank you. It's clear, non-jargony, concise, and was all that I was looking for on the topic. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 09:30, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great read 

message: Regarding this paragraph:
:The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (MMDT) splits the DSM-IV diagnosis into two distinct states: dysphoric mania, which consists of a manic episode with depressive symptoms; and agitated depression, which is a "major depressive [episode] with superimposed hypomanic symptoms".[5][dubious – discuss]
The paragraph says it gets its information from the Merck Manual, but I've checked the online Merck Manual and can find nothing in it saying that an agitated depression is a type of mixed state. The paragraph, while referencing the Merck Manual, does not actually cite it, citing instead a study from 2000. I checked the study, but if the Merck Manual is quoted within the study it must be behind the paywall. And if the study does indeed quote the Merck Manual, then the paragraph should reflect that the Merck Manual is quoted within the study. --Beneficii (talk) 23:56, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagnostic criteria 

message: The statement, "[A mixed affective state is] defined as a state wherein features unique to both depression and mania such as episodes of despair, doubt, anguish, rage or homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, splitting, racing thoughts, sensory overload, pressure of activity, and heightened irritability [occur simultaneously]" misrepresents mania and depression.  Homicidal ideation and sensory overload are neither diagnostic criteria nor common symptoms of either disorder.  The inclusion of "rage" on this list is also questionable.  Though manic patients who experience mania as irritation can have rage and women with peripartum depression can experience homicidal ideation, neither of these symptoms is sufficiently prototypic of its disorder that it should be used in this definitional context.
This paragraph also has no citations with it.  Perhaps this list should be trimmed to characteristics consistent with the DSM criteria for depression and mania and cited appropriately.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nkylesmith72 (talk • contribs) 20:57, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Nkylesmith72 It's called professional syndrome. It's when people try to use smarter sounding words even if it makes it hard to understand or (in this case) unreasonable words, in a professional setting. I see this in everything (I'm not sure if that's a normal thing that adults understand because I'm just an autistic 13 year old that likes learning mental illnesses) and it doesn't seem he will change anything and seems confident in his decision to ruin this page by using unnecessary symptoms. Cyclothymia (talk) 19:53, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate Description of Attributes of Depression and Mania