Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder

1) A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

2) Any of several mood disorders characterised usually by alternating episodes of depression and mania or by episodes of depression alternating with mild nonpsychotic excitement -- called also bipolar affective disorder, bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive psychosis.

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