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Albert Graham, Backyard Pool Drainer
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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.
Sometimes known as manic depression bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that like schizophrenia is a life long condition and is fairly genetic in origin.
Bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic-depressive illness, is a mental illness involving episodes of serious mania and depression.
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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.
In bipolar or manic-depressive disorder, the inconsolable misery of major depression alternates with mania or uncontrolled elation.
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