Did you know ever 18 minutes someone in the United States commits suicide?
Did you know every 7 minutes someone contemplates the thought of suicide?
Did you know ever 5 minutes someone cuts themselves?

• Bipolar=Bipolar disorder used to be called manic depression. A person with bipolar disorder can swing from extreme mood states of invinible elations to paralysing despair and back again. This psychiatric illness can be mild, moderate, or sever. During the manic phace, the person is optimistic and buoyed by exaggerated feelings of wellbeing. Their minds are overactive and they need very little sleep, but, while they have plenty of energy, they lack concentration. Work and study may suffer. During the depressive phase, the person feels despairing and may contemplate suicide.
• Bipolar Type 2=Bipolar 2 disorder involves the cyclical alternation of major depressive periods with periods of hypomania. Hypomania is a state of elevated engery and/or mood, but is not manic like Bipolar 1 patients. They may cut themselves to relieve emotional pain, but do not often become delusional or require hospitalization such as the Bipolar 1 patient.
• Cyclothymic Disorder= characterised by mild and alternating mood swings of depression that are not debilitating enough to motivate a person to seek medical help. The periods of elation and depression can each last for lengthy periods, such as a few months. Often, a person with Cyclothymic disorder has a relative Bipolar disorder, or they may themselves develope Bipolar disorder.
• Dysthymic Disorder= Defined as long-term depression that affects a person's quality of life, but not their ability to participate in usual work, family and social activites. The person may expierence fatigue, sleeping and eating problems, and be plagued by low self-esteem, guilt and negative thinking. Cognitive difficulties include concentration and memory problems.
• Major Depression= A person suffering from Major Depression experiences the general symptons listed for depression to their extreme, and these severly impact on their daily lives. Feelings of despair and hopelessness are pervasive, energy levels are extremely low and there is little motivation to do even the simples of daily tasks. Hypersensitivity, paranoia, low self-esteem and suicidal thoughts are all common symptoms of Major Depression. It is important to get immediate help before suicidal thoughts become intentions.
• Psychotic Depression= Approximately 15 percent of people who suffer from Major Depression also show symptoms of Psychotic Depression. These symptoms include hearing voices inside ones head, having visions of people or things that are not actually there, and delusional thinking. People who suffer from this extreme form of Major Depression cannot rationally judge the consequences of their actions, they are in serious danger of killing themselves.
• Atypical Depression= Common in women. The feeling of depression will get better for a period and then worsen again. The symptoms sleeping and eating problems, hypersensitivity to rejection (especially romantic rejection), and the intermittent panic attacks, are characteristic of atypical depression. This type of depression usually begins in adolescence and, if untreated, will often continue throughout life.