Hypomania can be difficult to diagnose because it may masquerade as mere happiness, though it carries the same risks as mania.

Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it.

Hypomania may be indicative of Bipolar II Disorder or Cyclothymia.

Hypomania is different, as it may cause little or no impairment in function.

Hypomania is a feature of bipolar II disorder and cyclothymia, but can also occur in schizoaffective disorder.

Hypomania is also a feature of bipolar I disorder as it arises in sequential procession as the mood disorder fluctuates between normal mood and mania.

Hypomania can also occur when moods progress downwards from a manic mood state to a normal mood.

Hypomania is also a side effect of numerous medications, often those used in psychopharmacotherapy.

Hypomania is generally a mild to moderate level of mania, characterized by optimism, pressure of speech and activity, and decreased need for sleep.

Hypomania ( literally, " below mania ") is a mood state characterized by persistent and pervasive elevated ( euphoric ) or irritable mood, as well as thoughts and behaviors that are consistent with such a mood state.

Hypomania is a lowered state of mania that does little to impair function or decrease quality of life.

: This article is an expansion of a section titled Hypomania from within the main article: Bipolar disorder.

Hypomania is sometimes credited with increasing creativity and productive energy.

In support of this view McCreery points to the high correlation that has been found to exist between scores on the Chapmans ’ Perceptual Aberration scale, which measures proneness to perceptual anomalies such as hallucinations, and the Chapmans ’ Hypomania scale, which measures a tendency to episodes of heightened arousal.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

That, however, may also bring the police, if the thinking does not meet with social approval.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

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We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

The return for a decedent may also serve as a claim for refund of an overpayment of tax.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

Since you contributed more than half of his support, you may also claim an exemption for him on your return.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Outboard motors, insurance, and boat repairs may also be financed in the same way as boats.

Boatyards which also provide some of the above facilities may rightfully be called marinas.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

A site may also be attractive just through the beauty of its trees and shrubs.

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

In any inquiry into the way in which great literature affects the emotions, particularly with respect to the sense of harmony, or relief of tension, or sense of `` a transformed inner nature '' which may occur, a most careful exploration of the particular feature of the experience which produces the effect would be required.

Exposure problems may occur in these forest areas where uneven lighting results from shafts of sunlight filtering through the overhead branches.

It seems likely, moreover, that with an increase in the rate of saving in mortgage lending institutions, interest rates on residential mortgages may move somewhat lower through the spring of next year, although the increased ease in residential mortgage lending may occur primarily in other terms than interest rate, e.g., easier downpayment and amortization terms.

Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

In such a situation, it may be incumbent on the individual to abjure one of his citizenships to avoid possibly being forced into situations where countervailing duties are required of him, such as might occur in the event of war.

Abscesses may occur in any kind of solid tissue but most frequently on skin surface ( where they may be superficial pustules ( boils ) or deep skin abscesses ), in the lungs, brain, teeth, kidneys and tonsils.

Departures from the expected pattern may occur because of unidentified social or political situations or because of geographic barriers.

Transportation of abalone may only legally occur while the abalone is still attached in the shell.

They may similarly be produced in regions like the center of the Milky Way and other galaxies, where very energetic celestial events occur ( principally the interaction of relativistic jets with the interstellar medium ).

However, in the Coulomb field of a nucleus the translational invariance is broken and single-photon annihilation may occur.

Interactions between alcohol and certain antibacterials may occur and may cause side-effects and decreased effectiveness of antibacterial therapy.

Cross-resistance to several antibacterials may also occur when a resistance mechanism encoded by a single gene conveys resistance to more than one antibacterial compound.

This may occur several times, until gamonts are produced, forming gametes that fuse to create new cysts.

As audio signals may be electronically represented in either digital or analog format, signal processing may occur in either domain.

These antidepressants typically have fewer adverse effects than the tricyclics or the MAOIs, although such effects as drowsiness, dry mouth, nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, decreased appetite, long-term weight gain and decreased ability to function sexually may occur.

Adhesion, the attachment between adhesive and substrate may occur either by mechanical means, in which the adhesive works its way into small pores of the substrate, or by one of several chemical mechanisms.

When subjected to loading, debonding may occur at different locations in the adhesive joint.

Although aluminium has a low gastrointestinal absorption, accumulation may occur mainly in the presence of renal insufficiency.

There is a risk of a benzodiazepine withdrawal and rebound syndrome after continuous usage for longer than two weeks, and tolerance and dependence may occur if patients stay under this treatment for longer.