Bipolar Disease
Description:
What is unipolar illness? When the mood is just depressed. This is far more common than bipolar illness.
What is bipolar disease? Bipolar disorders (manic-depressive illness) are marked by periods of manic, greatly elated moods or excited states as well as by periods of depression. Although the manic-depressive psychosis may alternate from one of its phases to the other, one or the other phase is usually dominant for a while. Depression is more often dominant than mania. Manic-depressive patients often recover spontaneously for periods of time, but relapses are fairly common. Most often this disease is genetic. Bipolar is a severe mental disorder. There are 2 types of the bipolar diseases: Bipolar 1 & bipolar 2.
Bipolar 1- person experiences at least one, and usually many more, manic episodes, alternating with episodes of major depression
Bipolar 2- the individual experiences periods of hypomania alternating with episodes of major......
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