15 answers by real people - What does “Bipolar” mean?
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It’s just another word for manic-depression. It is a disorder that causes people to experience at least one episode of mania or hypomania and possibly depression.
Some people only have one episode, some have many. Mania is being sped up, decreased inhibitions, euphoric OR irritable, possibly even hearing voices or imagining false things. Hypomania is like mania only less severe.
Some people have mixed episodes – features of mania and depression at the same time. Some people have rapid cyclying – manic then depressed all in the same day.
It is supposed to be very treatable!!
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What Does Bipolar Mean
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Bipolar disorder (also called manic – depressive disorder) is an illness that causes extreme mood changes that alternate between…Bipolar disorder causes big mood swings. You can switch from periods…
WebMD Medical Reference from Healthwise
Millions of people have bipolar disorder
It used to be called manic depression.
With bipolar disorder, life can be like an emotional roller coaster. One day your mood is low and you feel sad. Then your mood gets really high and you feel great. Then the sadness comes back.
The good news is that there’s help for these extreme mood swings. With proper treatment, people with bipolar disorder can lead normal lives.
Learn more about bipolar disorder
Think you might have bipolar disorder?
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Good luck! If I can deal with it so can you.
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It used to be called “manic-depressive” to describe the two extremes of emotions that a person will feel. Someone who is bipolar (or manic-depressive) experiences extreme depression at some times, but then will have episodes of mania or extreme happiness (which sometimes comes off as craziness, because they’re on such a high.)
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Bipolar disorder is chemical imbalance that cause one to experience uncontrollable emotions rushing in all at once. You can go from happy to sad in a small period of time.
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bipolar is called bipolar because ‘bi’ means two and ‘polar’ refers to opposite sides. bipolar is usually used when referring to the mental illness bipolar disorder which is a mental disorders characterized by rapid mood changes from mania to depression. Mania is characterized by happy and hyperactive moods while depression is characterized by sad and hopeless moods.
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Bipolar disorder is any of a number of mood disorders where the person swings wildly from one emotion to another. The most commonly known is the manic-depressive disorder.
bipolar is what u would call ” bipolar disorder” which is manic depression
It means your moods are up and down for instance your are happy friendly and smiling then five minutes later you are angry and pisted off.
