Question

April is starting to spend money quickly to buy the fanciest clothes, car, and hotel rooms because she has an inflated sense of self-importance and self-worth, believing she deserves these things due to her superior powers and abilities. What symptom of mania is April displaying?

Answer 1

Answer:

Grandiosity

Explanation:

In psychopathology, according to the DSM-V, grandiosity is one of the symptoms used to diagnose a bipolar disorder or manic disorder.

In particular, grandiosity refers to a sense of superiority in which the person feels superior to rest of the people and better than them. Some of the symptoms are:

• An inflated sense of self-importance.
• Critizicing other's achievements
• Thinking you're unbeatable.
• Thinking you have superior abilities.

In this example, we can see that April is spending money quickly because she has an inflated sense of self-importance and self-worth believing she deserves these things due to her superior powers and abilities. We can see that she is having symptoms of grandiosity, having an inflated sense of self-importance and thinking she has superior powers or abilities. Therefore the symptom of mania she is displaying is Grandiosity.