Lypemania refers to a psychiatric disorder of chronic severe depression responsible for melancholia. Singer Marc Lavoine has it. What are the symptoms and causes? What treatments to cure it?
Rather rare disease integrated in bipolar disorders, lypemania or “unipolar disorder” is a psychiatric condition that makes people sad and melancholy. It is also a form of chronic severe depression. According to the singer Marc Lavoine guest of the show “We are not in bed“ And suffering from lymphemania, “It is a little deeper than melancholy“. His mother also suffered from it. What’s this here lypemania ? What are the symptoms ? Is it hereditary? What test? What treatments to get out of it? Is it possible ? Definition and advice with Dr Fanny Jacq, psychiatrist.
What is the definition of Lypemania?
“Lypemania is a form of chronic severe depressiona form of melancholia, a unipolar disorder” answers Dr. Fanny Jacq, psychiatrist. “She touches people with quickly worried, sad personality and that can’t enjoy lifea bit like Baudelaire or Verlaine“adds the expert. This old term, employed from the 19th century by the psychiatrist Esquirol, literally means “obsession with sadness“. It is no longer used in scientific literature today.
What are the symptoms of Lypemania?
Lypemania is manifested by melancholy and sad personality traits associated with severe depressive symptoms. Unlike bipolar disorder (alternating phases of excitation and phases of depression), lypemania is manifested by a depressive phase that lasts over time, permanent. We notice moral pain. “Patients don’t know why they are there, they don’t have no appetite, difficulty sleeping, low energy, trouble concentrating, dark thoughts even suicidal thoughts and haunting dark thoughts” develops the psychiatrist. “We are talking about failed life drivethese are people who can’t get on with life and don’t have the will to get out of it” says our interlocutor.
What are the causes of Lypemania?
Lypemania is rooted in the personality traits inherent in the person. “We know that there is a genetic and hereditary origin in lymphemania. This disease is mainly caused by a failure of neurotransmitters involved in the secretion of happiness hormones (serotonin)” notes Dr. Jacq. Besides genetics, lypemania is often caused by the “parenting modeling“. “If you have a father or mother who wanders like a lost soul, who has no taste for life, is very melancholy, it is likely that you develop these characteristics because the children are sponges“continues our interlocutor. Unlike a reactionary depression that arises after an event (loss of job, breakup, etc.)lypemania does not appear in adulthood, it is already present in childhood or adolescence.
“We will eliminate cases of depression linked to a triggering factor to focus on signs that have always lingered in the patient : a form of moral pain, nihilism and questioning about life that is not worth living, a life imbued with sadness, a form of slowing down, concentration problems, chronic inability to enjoy life and an somewhat morbid attraction to death” develops Dr. Fanny Jacq. During the consultation, the psychiatrist asks the patient if a family member has it.
“Sismotherapy is effective for 80% of severe depression”
Lypemania is treated like a bipolar disorder, that is to say that we prescribe high-dose antidepressants and mood-regulating treatments (as the lithium). “There seismotherapy, mini electric currents that pass through the brain to reactivate sleeping areas that secrete serotonin is effective for 80% of severe depression. But the impact is immediate and does not last over timeso it is necessary to reproduce the sessionsnotes Dr. Jacq. Inherent personality traits are more complicated to deal with. They imply the need for a intense supportive psychotherapy, to extract the patient from the family history if the parents themselves have lypemania. “It is really a pathology that deserves to be treated but the person is so used to this state that they do not really imagine being able to get out of it. Lypemania is not necessarily totally treatable but improves.“
Thanks to Dr Fanny Jacq, psychiatrist.