In the latter cases, he states that the disease pictures are as a rule characterized by grave disturbances of emotions, chiefly of a depressive character.
If we are to regard it as a psychosis then we expect it to show other reactions, just as dementia praecox shows manic depressive symptoms.
This was the first triumphant conclusion, but afterward came reaction and a depressive doubt.
A little later he had given his card to the servant at the door and was waiting in a darkened and most depressive library for the coming of the master of the house.
Weygandt interprets this case as one of hypomania, remarking that war influences may serve to bring out preëxisting manic depressive tendencies.
Case 167, a naval officer who distinguished himself greatly by work on land in Belgium, was regarded by its reporter as one of manic-depressive psychosis with the fatigue of war as its base.
It is doubtful, therefore, whether there is any case here abstracted which can be used to support the hypothesis that the manic-depressive (cyclothymic) group of mental diseases has had or is likely to have its genesis in war stress.
Lépine remarks that Pierret and others, observing such spells of confusion often accompanied by agitation, have inquired whether manic depressive psychosis is not a kind of epilepsy.
One of the ideas in the literature concerning the manic-depressive group has been that it is very possibly remotely allied to Graves’ disease, a hypothesis upheld by Stransky in Aschaffenburg’s Handbook.
As to his previous history, he had had a depressive psychosis two years before, but the delusions at that time were of persecution.
In this respect they resemble strongly the records obtained from some cases of manic-depressive insanity.
There can be no doubt that at least some of these cases are clinically perfectly typical ones of manic-depressive insanity, yet the test records strongly resemble, in some respects, those of dementia præcox.
But we must point out that this man almost certainly undergoes a regular manic-depressive cycle, may be dangerously depressed, even suicidal, in a depressive low, and may endanger himself and others in a manic period of elation.
Bazzard might have imitated depressive and negative conditions, but he could not have imitated the qualities of positive life.
A brave man may simulate timidity and cowardice, the man who is capable of enthusiasm may wear the mask of apathetic indolence; all depressive and negative conditions may be imitated.
The continuance of depressive immigration will lead to nothing catastrophic.
Analysis of a Case of Manic-Depressive Psychosis Showing well-marked Regressive Stages.
Later there were at times ideas expressed which referred to the actual situation or essentially depressive ideas in a depressive setting.
There is no other manic-depressive psychosis which, theoretically, offers such hope of simple psychological measures being of therapeutic value.
Further justification for this grouping is found in the occurrence of the stupor reaction as a phase in many manic-depressive psychoses.
Such is our view of the etiology of manic-depressive insanity as a whole.
But when Kraepelin made catatonia a subdivision of dementia præcox, all stupors (except obvious phases of manic-depressive insanity) had to be hysterical or malignant.
On the other hand, of those who began with reactions of definite excitement, anxiety or psychotic depression, there were interruptions which looked like miniature manic-depressive psychoses in all but one case.
Since the prognosis is good, we feel obliged to classify this with the manic-depressive reactions.
Although inactive and sometimes appearing dull the depressive individual is not apathetic but is suffering acutely.
The intellectual processes suffer more seriously in stupor than in any other form of manic-depressive insanity.
A similar tendency may be seen later: On November 4, while generally stuporous, this suddenly lifted for a short time, and with feeble voice she uttered some depressive ideas.
It would be instructive at this point to consider another case which illustrates beautifully how a stupor reaction may crystallize out of other manic-depressive states when attention has become focused on personal death.
The mental symptoms, in short, are very similar to those of the elevated stage of manic-depressive insanity.
Depression of the manic-depressive variety, therefore, may either precede or follow upon an attack of maniacal excitement, or it may be the chief and only obvious symptom of the disease and may recur again and again.
The Elevated Stage of Folie Circulaire or Manic Depressive Insanity.
In the excited stage of manic-depressive insanity it is not uncommon to find that the memory is abnormally active.
Manic-depressive insanity implies that the patient may either suffer from excitement or depression which do not necessarily succeed one another in any fixed order.
Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.
The Editor has entered thus largely into the consideration of Cowper's depressive malady, because it has been least understood, and subject to the most erroneous misrepresentations, affecting the character of Cowper and the honour of religion.
However, the stimulative and depressiveeffects of environment are even more significant.
They may simulate manic-depressive or cyclic insanity.
Vague anxiety, depressive fancies and fears, imaginative overactivity can be removed by inhibiting the post-pituitary.
In the form of cyclic insanity known as the manic-depressive psychosis, mania alternates with depression, as if the personality were dominated wholly in turn by one or the other of these two instincts of the ego.
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Sidenote: The Hard Work Required to Fail] The truth is, It takes just as much brain work to accomplish a failure as it does to win success--just as much effort to build up a depressive mental attitude as an energizing one.
Depressive memories or ideas have associated with them a depressing and disintegrating emotional quality.
There is a definitely pathological trend to the cyclothymic, and in its most marked form one sees the recurring depressions and excitement of Manic Depressive Insanity.
In mental disease, of the type known as Maniac Depressive insanity, there is a curious oscillation of self-love and self-admiration.
This type of uncontrolled energy reaches its height in the manical or manic phase of the disease already described as manic depressive insanity.
A probable diagnosis of manic-depressive psychosis was made by the prison physician.
Why it is that one paretic greets us with the exalted mien of his grandiose delirium, while another spreads about him the gloom of a depressive delirium--the changes in the pyramidal cells do not explain.
Occasionally we also see a case of organic brain disease or manic-depressive psychosis, and in more frequent instances a case of epilepsy.
Then Atherton launched into a description of how he had striven to find a girl who had the strong qualities his family germ plasm seemed to have lost, mainly, I gathered, resistance to a taint much like manic depressive insanity.
He paused, then resumed argumentatively: "Then there are other questions, too, like that of genius with its close relation to manic depressive insanity.
They had a grandfather who was a manic depressive on the Atherton side," said Crafts slowly.
The cases in this family seem all to be instances of manic-depressive insanity.
Just as soon as people realize the physical nature of certain dispositional changes they give much less depressive significance to them.
This undoubtedly sums up one important element in the causation of a great many depressive conditions.
It leads from epilepsy to the periodic diseases, especially the maniacaldepressive insanity, the paranoia which develops late, and finally to states of idiocy which cover the whole life.
We may find psychotherapeutic schemes by which epilepsy or maniacal depressive insanity or traumatic neuroses may become accessible.
Lithium therapy is a specific treatment primarily for manic-depressive disorders.
For manic-depressive patients--with wide swings of mood from feeling extremely energetic and emotionally high to feeling seriously depressed--lithium therapy may offer help as a mood stabilizer.
Here is no stimulation first and depressive recoil afterward, but unmitigated depression from the first.
The origin of the belief that stimulation is necessarily followed by a depressive recoil is obviously to be found in the old vitalistic ideas.
In no case is the action of a stimulant followed by a depressive reaction.
We may search in vain among the phaenomena of intoxication for any genuine evidences of that heightened mental activity which is said to be followed by a depressive recoil.
It is our old acquaintance, the Archaeus, whose exhaustion, after his violent efforts in resentment of the goadings which he has endured, is represented in modern phraseology by the term 'depressive reaction.
In no case are they instances of stimulus followed by reaction; but whenever a narcotic dose is taken, the depressive paralytic action begins as soon as the dose is absorbed by the blood-vessels.
Willessness (aboulia or paralysis of will) { often found in psychasthenia; and in depressive { states.
Others are of manic-depressive parentage; some are possibly even of paranoic or dementia præcox lineage; while many of our finest and best had psychopathic or neuropathic heredity.
The morning of October 10th, when the Duke and Duchess arrived was gloomy and later on the rain poured with steady and depressive persistence.
