Talk:Mania

message: I'm just a random person passing through, but this sections seems a bit, well, useless. It's unprofessional (all lower-case, no explanation. Even something as simple as "these are words that share an identical root meaning" would be good. I've never seen such things on other pages. I just think it doesn't really belong. --24.16.223.145 01:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Derivative words

message: Note: We need examples of non-bipolar causes of mania in this article.
I don't know if this is a country thing but in Canada the term mixed states is used not dysphoric mania. If you use some of the references in the article they say this. Could it be added in? I find it easier to understand and i know that is how its refered to in Canada (by Doctors as well).
If you are looking for a non-bipolar cause of mania you can find a similar effect (i'm not sure if its officially mania) sometimes in people that do too many stimulant drugs (amphetamines used not as prescribed, cocaine etc.) From what i know if this is the problem the person usually returns to normal once they have had sufficient time to recover from the effects of what they have taken. Also there is currently debate on how to classify mania that is induced by psychiatric drugs. Most anti-depressants have a tendency to induce mania in 1-5% of the people that take them. In some cases its decided they are bipolar but other doctors argue against this. I'm sensitive this way but actually it would always look like some normal prescription was causing the problem. I was taking Paxil which uses a common enzyme chain to get out of the body (and too much paxil induced hypomania in me). If i was given another prescription that used the same enzyme chain i would experience hypomania although it took a while to figure out what the problem was (i eventually caught the likely problem by looking through the pharmacists guide and comming across the reference to the enzyme chain. When i brought it to the attention of my doctor she switched me to another anti-depressant and the interaction problem mostly went away.--Marcie 19:29, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-bipolar

message: People with mania beat their spouses? That is not only untrue, but it is a hurtful stigma.
:oh yeah, that's right, that's what people with personality disorders do, and should be denied clinical significance and treatment.
::Some people are violent when in a manic state, but most people who experience mania are not violent. Violence is most prevalent in antisocial personality disorder, sadistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.
::please sign your comments on talk pages, you do not auto sign, one can do so by typing in 4 tildes in a row or clicking on the four tildes in the insert part of editing.Deathisaninevitability,soifearitnot-1234 (talk) 20:31, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Violence 

message: While reading this article I saw this phrase which I can't understand. Perhaps it's just my english beeing bad, but could there be a link to what it refers to?
The Liaison page seems to be unrelated...?
This is in the Symptoms section.
:definition for Liaison Although to be honest, as someone who speaks French, I feel that liaison doesn't fit so well in English.
:Liaison here is a euphemism for a sexual encounter; this is conventional usage in English despite meanings the word might have in other languages such as French.  To be fair, this euphemism conveys a sense of secrecy and sophistication not necessarily appropriate to the article.  Besides, scientific treatment of behavior should not resort to euphemism.  I have therefore reworded the article. Ventifact 21:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Risky liaisons?  

message: :MINOR EDIT: I changed hyperreligiosity to hyper-religiosity. Although both seem close in popularity based on a google serach, it reads better when seperated by a hyphen. --A Sunshade Lust 22:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religiosity 

message: What does "grandiosity" mean?
: It is the adjective form of grandiose.  Wiktionary defines grandiose as "1. large and impressive, in size, scope or extent; 2. pompous or pretentious." Ventifact 21:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, it's the noun form. Grandiose is an adjective. Spandrawn 11:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grandiosity 

message: Lead on original research...
The lack of focus on 'organic causes' ie undetected bacterial infections of the intestinal system, ie giardia, or lymes disease can cause symptoms that may be taken as being some type of labelled mental illness.
The illness is impacting the mind, it is a mental illness but caused by toxins created by the infection, and/or the infection that corrupts the needed biochemical reactions.
There should be a cross link to the reality that such labels while true, ignore a most likely cause.  half-truths
Hopefully someone can google this lead to find other researchers who can provide the necessary links...
Former Chief of Psychiatric Assocation and views on bacterial infections
--Caesar J. B. Squitti  :  Son of Maryann Rosso and Arthur Natale Squitti 03:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The missing link: 

message: What's the point of the "Additional reading" section? I think it should be deleted unless some book titles are added. Spandrawn 11:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional reading section 

message: Come on with these fucking mnemonics.  If you need one of these to know what "mania" means, you shouldn't be learning about it in the first place.  If a doctor ever explained to me what mania was by using a mnemonic, I'd punch him in the face. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.88.4 (talk) 
:Not everyone who wants to learn about psychology is a doctor. Better that people learn through mnemonics than not learn at all. Regardless, let's stay on the topic of how we can improve this article. - AdelaMae (t - c - wpn) 23:42, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol and that sounds like a pretty manic response by the way!--KobaVanDerLubbe 00:23, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mnemonics 

message: removed .. 'ed harrison luvs mainy calvert'  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.167.243.215 (talk) 18:47, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I tagged this section over a month ago as being completely unreferenced, and it remains without any references whatsoever.  Unless citations are found to support the material in this section, I plan to remove it in three days. Ashdog137 (talk) 10:07, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Delete away. Jok2000 (talk) 17:13, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes - well done. It needed removal. 88.97.15.184 (talk) 13:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herbal supplements section 

message: I don't understand why conniption redirects to this page.   It doesn't have anything to do with mania as an illness.
The only reference connecting conniption with mania as an illness is identical text from http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/conniption http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/conniption and http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/conniption all owned by Farlex, Inc.  The reference for that sentence that it gives is http://www.thefreelibrary.com/What+government+can+do+to+you%3a+our+government+has+steadily%2c+and+...-a0149023245 a viewpoint essay referenced as from July 24, 2006 The New American referring to one specific incident ( http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+New+American/2006/July/24-p515 ) .
That isn't more than an anecdotal reference and does not imply that people suffering from mania are more or less likely to have conniption fits in general or that they have any psychological or medical connection.   Everywhere else that I looked for a connection between conniption and mania wasn't in the medical/psychiatric sense of mania.   Looking for conniption and conniption fit, is much more related to hissy fit or tantrum.
I encourage that this redirection be removed and replaced with a redirect of conniption and conniption fit to tantrum.
Bill Smith (talk) 23:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conniption redirect - why? 

message: The section at the top of the page indicates that the article is in need of an expert, and that it has been that way since November of 2008. I find this hard to believe: Aren't most people that read this article either A) All-knowing or B) Know someone who is? ;-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gorillamania (talk • contribs) 17:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I removed the tags.  I hate it when articles are disfigured by tags like that anyway, and a poke like yours is all the justification I need.  :-).  Of course if any expert does happen to come along, all the better. Looie496 (talk) 00:25, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it that hard to find an expert? 

message: Mania is a mood disorder, not psychosis.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.100.178.129 (talk) 16:18, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Being one doesn't mean it can't also be the other.  Regards, Looie496 (talk) 18:07, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: First, my english is bad, so sorry for the write errors. Now, a Maniac state its a Mood disorder because only the moods or emotion are disrturbed, not the perception of reallity. Who a maniac person act agressive or irrational in some instances are because impulsives fellings. Is posible a maniac-psychotic disorder, but both are single diferents pathologies, similars in a basic aspect but still diferents. Mania in bipolar people in the most doesn't include hallucinations or delusions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.100.178.129 (talk) 21:45, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Usually, it is a mood disorder" is very confusing, because mania is always a mood disorder, and the sentence already says so in an earlier part.  Because my policy is never to revert more than once, I have tried a different approach, by simply removing that part of the sentence.  Can you live with that?  Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:22, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

text: The article is already correct on this point; psychosis may become present with mania.   Jok2000 (talk) 21:37, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, mania is always a mood disorder; psychosis sometimes occurs during mania. 188.29.90.254 (talk) 11:23, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form of clinical psychosis? 

message: I came here looking for a summary of the DSM & ICD criteria for a manic episode, and didn't find one, so I've inserted it. Anthony (talk) 14:34, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: DSM & ICD criteria

message: Are these the same? --Krystofer (talk) 12:24, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as far as I can see.  The term "maniacal syndrome" mainly shows up in translations of articles whose originals were not written in English. Looie496 (talk) 16:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mania & maniacal syndrome 

message: I removed a block of text unsourced since 2008. Mostly redundant or dubious.  --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:16, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Signs and symptoms

message: I removed the line in the intro about some cases not being bad enough to require "commitment" because most of the time bipolar is first treated on an outpatient basis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.17.124.2 (talk) 03:56, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hospitalization 

message: The section on "cause" claims that the causes are more genetics than other things, but the article on bipolar disease says that genetical research has shown that there is no significant genomes "peaking" or something. This is not my field, so I don't know if this is true, but the articles don't seem to agree.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.200.58.179 (talk) 20:59, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Causes - genetics? 

message: I removed the following: "Mania can be the result of using drugs. Quitting drugs can create situations in one's mind similar to the symptoms of mania, such as constant racing of the mind.[citation needed] A diagnosis of mania in these situations is often temporary." I frankly didn't think the info was needed, but others may disagree.
First, it didn't belong under Mixed States. Second, the article already says mania can be caused by drug use. Third, racing thoughts aren't the only symptom of mania brought on by withdrawal (including withdrawal from Rx drugs as well as illicit drugs and alcohol, btw). Fourth, if withdrawal causes genuine mania, we shouldn't say it's "similar" to mania. And finally, almost all mania diagnoses are temporary, even if some are of shorter duration than others; that's why they call them "episodes" (chronic mania is exceedingly rare, and mania that never remits to any degree is all but unheard of). If there's a desire to reinsert something about withdrawal, I suggest simply adding "or withdrawal" after the "drug intoxication" parenthetical in the second paragraph. Ctnelsen (talk) 01:38, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mania can be the result of using drugs

message: I reverted this edit on the basis that the idea is not well known and the references are primary sources per WP:MEDRS.  The IP editor who made the edit reverted it back, with edit summary Undid revision 546618239 by Looie496 because it's widely accepted that antioxidant status, namely oxidative stress is strongly associated with mania. Saying as a neuroscientist....  As far as I know this is not actually widely accepted, but if it is, it ought to be possible to provide a proper review paper as source.  I am not going to revert again because my policy is never to revert an edit more than once.  Input from other editors would be helpful. Looie496 (talk) 20:14, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oxidative stress 

message: Is the repeated use of the phrase "full blown mania" consistent with the literature?173.28.215.140 (talk) 12:49, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "full blown" 

message: The box at the top only includes international classifications. Wikipedia is a U.S.-based encyclopedia, & the DSM is a near-universally recognized resource. We need to add the DSM here & anywhere else the ICD is referenced without mention of the DSM.Ctnelsen (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:58, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Box Needs DSM Classifications 

message: Also, they are all of very stereotypically "crazy-looking" women: asymmetric eyes, disheveled hair, mouth ajar, etc. Why not have a picture of Robin Williams? or Carrie Fisher? Or Jim Carry? It would be a step toward normalizing the disease. 
Right? I mean it's clearly not a piece of photography.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.162.212 (talk) 11:37, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: We use what we can find under an open license. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:32, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  These are archaic images that are neither relevant nor representative of current medical science. Inability to find an acceptable image with an open license doesn't justify the inclusion of an inappropriate image in its place. Furrybeagle (talk) 23:39, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree with user:Furrybeagle, and would like to add my support to the idea of removing these images. I came to this talk page after reading the article because these images don't seem useful or appropriate. A drawing of a diagnosis from the 1800s is problematic unless it's being used solely to shine a light on historical issues. Stevenarntson (talk) 18:27, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Since there's been no further discussion, I'm going to Be Bold and remove the images. If any editor decides to revert, please do expand the discussion here, too. Thank you! Stevenarntson (talk) 21:50, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Representative Image Problems 

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