Can anxiety disorder be misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder? Why?

When you say misdiagnosis, it's not just anxiety. Bipolar disorder may be the most easily misdiagnosed complex disease in mental illness, so not only bipolar disorder can be misdiagnosed as other mental disorders, but also common mental disorders such as anxiety disorder can be misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder.

Anxiety disorder is a group of common mental disorders characterized by excessive tension, worry, fear and avoidance, with autonomic nerve dysfunction as typical symptoms. The severity can also reach to damage social function, or obvious pain and entanglement. The misdiagnosis rate of anxiety disorder is generally not high, but among the most easily misdiagnosed mental disorders, depression should be the first one, and many patients with anxiety disorder have more or less typical depression. But at the same time, patients with anxiety disorder may easily lose their temper because of irritability and anxiety. In the final analysis, people will feel an obvious state of mental agitation when they are anxious or depressed, which is easy to lose their temper and conflict. In some people's eyes, this performance is likely to be misunderstood as a manic episode, because the previous diagnostic criteria can diagnose a single irritability as a manic episode, but the current diagnostic criteria obviously do not support this.

Therefore, anxiety disorder is easily misdiagnosed as a depressive episode, because there is depression; Anxiety disorder can be irritable or misdiagnosed as manic episode. Well, the mental disorder that satisfies both depressive and manic episodes is a weekend mood disorder, okay? As a result, an anxiety patient was misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder because of depression and irritability.

Anxiety disorder can certainly be improved by antidepressants and antianxiety drugs, but quite a few patients with anxiety disorder have anxious personality. Drugs can help them give up their anxiety temporarily, but many people are used to thinking anxiously as soon as they encounter something.

So, what I want to say is that, as a psychologist, drugs can help people to temporarily correct the painful experience of anxiety, but the biggest help is to change their views on anxiety. For example, there will be an important exam tomorrow. Some people in the dormitory will fall asleep, some will stay up reading, and some will fidget ... why does the same exam make everyone feel completely different? It is because the attribute of anxiety is a product of man-made, that is, everyone who is anxious about the exam artificially imposes the attribute of anxiety on the exam, so the exam is not anxious, or the anxious person is anxious himself.

The best psychotherapy for anxiety disorder is cognitive behavioral therapy, which can change our mood and behavior by changing the wrong anxiety cognition. Of course, this kind of treatment should be carried out by experienced psychotherapists in an orderly manner.

Still have to rely on yourself. If you don't worry too much and don't care, you won't have so many troubles. Calm down, calm down, be upright, and handle people and things well. As long as it doesn't violate the law, it's reasonable and legal, and maybe more prosperity and less adversity will make people more comfortable!

There may be all kinds of jokes now. Only what you can't think of, nothing you can't do.