Bipolar disorder
Use
bipolar depression
Facts
- Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depression because a person’s mood can alternate between the "poles" mania (highs) and depression (lows).
- Bipolar disorder is a common, recurrent, severe psychiatric illness that affects an individual's mood, behavior and ability to think clearly.
- Bipolar disorder is a serious disorder typically beginning in adolescence or early adulthood.
- Bipolar disorder is related to about half of all suicides.
- Bipolar disorder symptoms include persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt, anger, isolation, or hopelessness, disturbances in sleep and appetite, fatigue and loss of interest in usually enjoyable activities, problems concentrating, loneliness, self-loathing, apathy or indifference.