Manic depression is also known as bipolar affective disorder or just bipolar. It is a form of mood disorder in which the subject is suffering from major mood swings between extreme elation (mania) and extreme low depression. It is a serious condition that occurs only in one sex at the age of 18-24 years. The [...]

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders where the person experiences states or episodes of and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. Left untreated, it is a severely disabling psychiatric condition. The difference between bipolar disorder and major depression is that bipolar disorder involves “energized” or [...]