Prof. Dr.. Ahmed Salem Bahamam, which is repeated cycles of depression and mania, after which the patient returns to a state of complete recovery and the exercise of his normal life. Socially appropriate or may be aggressive or provocative.
As for sleep disturbance, it is the first sign of the onset of an attack Where the patient''s need for sleep diminishes, he may spend days with very few hours of sleep (1-3 hours per day), which increases the disorder and worsens the condition. This patient needs intensive drug treatments during the seizure to control its severity, which are antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, and the patient may need to be hospitalized during a manic episode. In the future, and follow up his condition regularly with a psychiatrist.
Recent research has shown that this disease also affects circadian rhythm disorders. The reader should realize that not everyone who suffers from a sleep disorder has a psychological problem, as there are organic and behavioral causes of sleep disorders. Therefore, if it is proven that the patient does not suffer from any mental illness that causes sleep disorders, we do not recommend taking any psychiatric medication as a treatment for sleep, and the patient is referred to a doctor who specializes in sleep disorders to evaluate his condition He may be complaining of an organic disease causing disturbed sleep. Sleep disorders have many causes, a large part of them organic and related to other organic diseases, part behavioral and part psychological.
