Posted by munificentexegete on February 16, 2007, at 21:42:59
In reply to Possible causes of bipolar and its spectrum, posted by Squiggles on February 14, 2007, at 10:20:07
from its orgins to the modern day definition:
from the DSMIV...
Bipolar I Disorder
Sometimes individuals experience severe mood swings from periods of extreme depression to periods of exaggerated happiness. This is known as bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness, an illness that involves episodes of serious mania and depression. The individual's mood usually swings from overly "high" and irritable (mania) to sad and hopeless (depression) and then back again, with periods of normal moods interspersed.
Everyone gets happy and sad in cycles every day, every week, every year, indeed life is a series fluctuations in mood from happiness to melancholia and back again. They have defined life as a disease. Every single person on the planet can be diagnosed as bipolar.
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