Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder also known as Manic Depressant Disorder is a mood disorder that involves episodes of both serious mania and depression. The person's mood will swing from being excessively high and irritable to sad and hopeless depression and back again. They will usually experience periods of normality in between. This distressing and disruptive disease affects men and women equally. These erratic mood episodes can last for a few days to as long as …showed first 75 words of 692 total…

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