2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Ups of activity-passivity.
Arkady is a man of about 60 years old. His deepest, loud sobs make the neighbors uneasy.
A week passes.
Arkady is emotionally charged and is broadcasting something to someone over the phone. He eagerly bombs offenders or defends unjustly offended. Words fly out into the world with such fervor, as if the salvation of mankind depends on this conversation.
He speaks on the phone quickly, energetically and loudly. Arkady's emotional monologue lasts an hour and a half - it is impossible to wedge in. After all, he needs to have time to share his experience and protect the interlocutor from mistakes. He has important knowledge, is competent and authoritative.
A week passes.
Arkady is sobbing, embarrassing his neighbors with loud moans.
A week passes.
Arkady is inflamed with a new incendiary speech.
A week passes.
And Arkady wails loudly, choking in grievous suffering.
And such cycles are constant and endless: now an orator, then sobbing like a beluga. Orator-beluga-orator-beluga.
These cycles are like waves on the sea: the wave soars up and then crashes down with all its might.
The upward take-off is a wave of activity. Falling down - a wave of passivity (weakness, depression, despondency, tearfulness).
In the zone of activity, Arkady is the almighty almighty Zeus, and in the zone of passivity, he is weak, tired and suffering.
These phases are quite natural.
In the stage of increased activity, the body used up energy. And in the stage of passivity, it recovers and gains strength.
Moreover, the person himself often does not notice these waves in himself, and those around them are strikingly striking.
Previously, this condition was referred to as a "cyclothymic" type of character, or "cycloid accentuation" of character. Now Cyclothymia is considered an independent disease, in which the ups and downs of mental and physical activity of varying intensity alternate.
If the waves of activity-passivity have a huge amplitude, then this is already Manic - Depressive psychosis, in a modern way: Bipolar personality disorder.
To better understand this condition, think of Bipolar Personality Disorder as a pendulum that swings.
When the pendulum rushes to one of its poles, this is a depressive state: a person feels bad, anxious, sometimes he does not even want to live.
The opposite pole of the pendulum is the so-called manic state. A person does not become a maniac. It's just - a very emotionally uplifted state - a state of mania.
At this pole, neither man controls his energy, but the energy carries it: man neither eats, does not sleep, is exalted and omnipotent. Under the influence of such a state, a person can commit rash acts that will entail unpleasant consequences.
With the above diseases, drug treatment, regular visits to a psychiatrist and long-term individual psychotherapy are required.
Have you ever met people suffering from such diseases in your life?
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