Mania and Hypomania

Mania is a mental illness characterized by an excessively elated mental state and hyperactivity that is out of proportion to reality. In this state, common sense inhibitions may be lost and excessive risk-taking behavior may be manifest. Depending on severity of symptoms, mania may be classified as psychotic or nonpsychotic (hypomania).

A useful online overview can be found at Wikipedia; the definitive printed reference is the DSM-5 manual, which is not freely available online.

It is outside Dr. Weyrich's scope to prescribe antipsychotic drugs to treat mania, but Dr. Weyrich can provide adjunctive therapies that may be very beneficial, and allow the doctors prescribing antipsychotics to minimize the doses (and side effects).

Please see conventional, complementary, and alternative medical treatments for important background information regarding the different types of medical treatments discussed on this page. Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative treatments that may be considered include:

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  Lyme Disease
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  Bipolar Disorder
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  Depression
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  Hypomania
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  Cyclothymia
• Mania may or may not have psychotic symptoms.
• Mania may be misdiagnosed when the underlying disorder is actually bipolar or cyclothymia, if only manic states have been observed.
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  Hypothyroid
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  Adrenal Insufficiency or Fatigue
• Vitamin B12 deficiency [Pacholok2011].
• Drug intoxication, e.g. cocaine or methamphetamine abuse, or side effects of SSRIs

The greatest impediment to treatment of mania is that the patient is often uncooperative and unwilling to be treated. Psychotic mania is often treated either as an in-patient or as a court-ordered supervised out-patient. Under these circumstances, balancing neurotransmitters and neurofeedback techniques may be difficult to implement.

Naturopathic, Complementary, and Alternative Treatments