What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a condition that causes extreme mood shifts, ranging from mania (high) to depression (low).
In mania, the person may feel abnormally energetic, happy, or irritable and sometimes a reduced need for sleep. While in a depressive episode, the person may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest and pleasure in almost all activities. These episodes affect an individual’s behavior, judgment, sleep, energy, activity, and the…
