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Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder used to be called manic-depression and is still a good description of the disorder as often the mood swings can be either mania or depression or mixed. For an overall description of Bipolar Disorder, see the previous post here. These are the symptoms associated with Mania and Depression:

Bipolar Disorder

Highs and lows can be part of life but when you have bipolar disorder they can be severe.  Bipolar disorder is a lifelong illness that involves strong mood swings.  Many years ago bipolar disorder was called manic-depression.  The term “bipolar” refers to the two extremes (poles) of the disorder.  The highs are called mania and [...]