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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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BIPOLAR DISORDER AND CLINICAL DEPRESSION Affective disorders such as clinical depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression) affect millions of people every year.
Depression, mania, and bipolar disorder (bipolar disorder is also called manic-depressive illness and is characterized by cycles of depression and mania) are referred to as mood disorders.
There is some evidence that using antidepressant medication to treat depression in a person who has bipolar disorder may induce manic symptoms if it is taken without a mood stabilizer.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Bipolar disorder is a complex mental illness characterized by abnormal swings in mood from manic episodes, marked by euphoria, elation and irritability, to episodes of deep depression interspersed with periods of normal mood.
Bipolar depression : Also called manic-depressive disorder, bipolar depression causes the person to swing widely from emotional highs to emotional lows.
Bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic-depressive illness and will be called by both names throughout this publication--is a mental illness involving episodes of serious mania and depression.
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