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The description of behavior during a mixed state seems like it may be intended to be humorous, rather than a good faith description.
73.41.82.251 ( talk) 04:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
This page has been vandalized. Personally, it's frightening that anyone would graffiti such a serious topic.
Current version of this article states, that a treatment option are "anticonvulsants (aka mood stabilizers)", this is, however, misleading. While, apart lithium all other major mood stabilizers are antiepileptics, this doesn't mean that antiepileptics in general are mood stabilizers; much more AEDs may have some mood stabilising potential, but not every AED is necessarily a mood stabilizer. I will change the formulation to somewhat more convenient.-- 84.163.108.65 23:49, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
The article currently reads that only Abilify is FDA approved to treat mixed states. This not true. Depakote ER, Equetro(carbamazepine), and all the atypical antipsychotics except Seroquel, Clozaril and Invega have approval for acute mixed episodes.
If you've ever had to take care of a relation, you'll know that these mixed state zones are the worst. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.173.167 ( talk) 21:38, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
um, that's a very POV statement, wouldn't it seem? Mixed states require medication, period? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.191.11 ( talk) 12:17, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
From a clinical perspective, the statement is correct, if a little terse; If someone has been diagnosed with an illness (like Bipolar Disorder) that has mixed-state episodes, then it would be very likely that the doctor who made that diagnosis (or at least some doctor, at some point) will prescribe a mood stabilizer. Of course, everyone reacts differently to medications and it is possible that a patient who is experiencing a mixed state could be better off without any medication for a certain period. I wouldn't think it likely, though. 69.11.99.202 ( talk) 00:22, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
A mixed state might be best treated with an opiate (i.e. vicodin, percocet, etc.) or a tranquilizer (i.e. xanax, clonazepam) with simultaneous treatment with a mood stabilizer (i.e. lithium or Lamictal) and/or an anti depressant (i.e. prozac, lexapro, zoloft, etc.).
If addiction proposes too much of a problem, an anti-psychotic can be used to calm the patient down. However, many patients will react poorly to anti-psychotic medication. It may cause dystonia, agitation, and and infrequently may be abused.
This is a proposed trajectory of treatment from a sufferer of the disorder. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.166.218.98 ( talk) 00:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
This sentence reads as if it were written by someone who has been in a mixed state, which is good in a way, but somehow it needs to be reworded a bit to sound like an encyclopedia entry:
"One may also feel incredibly frustrated in this state, since one may feel like a failure and at the same time have a flight of ideas."
Maybe it's the word "incredibly", or maybe it's the extremely specific combination of feeling like a failure and having a flight of ideas. John Baez ( talk) 06:52, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
It is good language that points the reader's mind to something so specific. 75.84.189.218 ( talk) 07:44, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. It's clear, non-jargony, concise, and was all that I was looking for on the topic. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 09:30, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Regarding this paragraph:
The paragraph says it gets its information from the Merck Manual, but I've checked the online Merck Manual and can find nothing in it saying that an agitated depression is a type of mixed state. The paragraph, while referencing the Merck Manual, does not actually cite it, citing instead a study from 2000. I checked the study, but if the Merck Manual is quoted within the study it must be behind the paywall. And if the study does indeed quote the Merck Manual, then the paragraph should reflect that the Merck Manual is quoted within the study. -- Beneficii ( talk) 23:56, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. Number 5 7 14:58, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Mixed state (psychiatry) → Mixed affective state – I believe natural disambiguation is preferred over parenthetical disambiguation. Petr Matas 13:57, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
If you look up the talk page at the section "Diagnostic criteria," you will see that there were major issues with the claim that the Merck Manual stated that agitated depression was a type of mixed state. This problem has not been resolved. In addition, we now have new, unsourced additions to the paragraph in question here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mixed_affective_state&oldid=688720676
Then this other editor comes along talking about how the editor before them got it wrong and changes the assertion around, and it is still unsourced:
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mixed_affective_state&oldid=704502669
We need to find a reliable secondary medical source for that paragraph per WP:MEDRS because as of now there isn't one. If one is not found, then it should be deleted. -- Beneficii ( talk) 07:57, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
The statement, "[A mixed affective state is] defined as a state wherein features unique to both depression and mania such as episodes of despair, doubt, anguish, rage or homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, splitting, racing thoughts, sensory overload, pressure of activity, and heightened irritability [occur simultaneously]" misrepresents mania and depression. Homicidal ideation and sensory overload are neither diagnostic criteria nor common symptoms of either disorder. The inclusion of "rage" on this list is also questionable. Though manic patients who experience mania as irritation can have rage and women with peripartum depression can experience homicidal ideation, neither of these symptoms is sufficiently prototypic of its disorder that it should be used in this definitional context.
This paragraph also has no citations with it. Perhaps this list should be trimmed to characteristics consistent with the DSM criteria for depression and mania and cited appropriately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nkylesmith72 ( talk • contribs) 20:57, 13 June 2021 (UTC)