Mental Illness that is hard to understand. It is NOT a split-personality, and it does NOT include alter-egos. That is personality disorder/schizophrenia. When you are manic, it is the equivalent of being high. Its like driving very very fast without brakes. You usually cannot see that you are manic, and it really pisses you off when someone points it out to you. When you do realize you are manic, its after you've done/said something horrible. At this point, you feel that even if you get back in control, it is too late, you've already fucked up. This feeds the mania, and keeps it going. It is almost impossible to sleep when manic, and you get crazy ideas.

When you are depressed, it is horrible. The whole world is in shades of grey. No one can pull you out of it.

Bipolar should not always be viewed as negative. The way I see it, it is compensation. When someone is extremely smart, creative, or talented, it disrupts the balance in the brain. So, the brain must do something to restore the balance. ADD, Bipolar, Depression, etc. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert E. Lee, Beethoven, Buzz Aldrin, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Isaac Newton, Plato (according to Aristotle), St. Francis, St. John, St. Theresa, Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Victor Hugo, I think you get the idea.

Just realize, every gift comes with a curse, and every curse comes with a gift.

If you take medicine, and practice self-control, you can harness your mania and channel it into a talent.

Describes one who has bipolar disorder. This disorder causes the person to have mood swings frequently, usually triggered by something small. Mood swings can also occur for no apparent reason, and not to the person's control.

A condition that can wreak havoc on the life of the person that has it, and the lives those around the person. People with bipolar feel depression worse than death. Feelings of extreme loss, guilt, and utter helplessness can only begin to describe the misery these people experience. It is due to this unexplainable misery that many people with bipolar, sadly, end up committing suicide.

The other side of bipolar (the suffix "bi" indicating two things) is mania. Mania includes feelings of superhuman powers and extreme joy... to the point of being hyper. The person's mind goes a million miles an hour and he or she can keep going for days with little or no sleep.

Having cyclothymia myself, I can only begin to understand how these people feel.

Because people with bipolar cannot control the way they feel, and might be close to suicide at times, it is of utmost importance that everyone around them be as supportive as possible rather than deject them as a "psycho." ...as if the person actually has any control over their actions with such out of control emotions.

a term for someone with bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness, a mood disorder characterized by periods of depression including:

-persistent sadness
-low energy
-hopelessness
-suicidal thoughts

as well as periods of mania in bipolar I disorder, or hypomania (a less extreme form) in bipolar II disorder. Symptoms of hypomania include:

-grandiose ideas
-racing thoughts
-reckless overindulgence
-high energy/decreased need for sleep

When hypomania escalates into mania, symptoms include:

-incomprehensibly fast thoughts/speech
-dangerously impulsive behavior
-possible psychosis

Contrary to popular belief, most people with bipolar disorder are not constantly fluctuating between extremes. They may experience normal moods for extended periods of time, and a single mood episode tends to last for a few weeks, though mania can quickly become depression and vice versa.

Another common misconception is that bipolar disorder is like depression, but with the bonus of hypomania. Depressive symptoms are equally severe in bipolar I and II disorders, but for people with bipolar I disorder, mania is at least as dangerous and frightening as depression.

Even for those people who experience relatively harmless highs, depression tends to immediately follow hypomania. Whereas major depression can be treated with therapy (as well as medication) and possibly never recur, there is no cure for bipolar disorder and therapy is of limited use. Bipolar disorder has a st...

Bipolar is when a person feels mood swings constantly. They have no control over it even when they take medication. Most medication Bipolar People take is Lithium, Lithium makes kids/adults with bipolar not vary mood swingy at all. It makes them think normal, but that doesent mean that it will make them alright when they take it.

Basically i have bipolar and its not the lite kind. Kids who deal with bipolar often get angry and sad. When barely anyone talks to them they become vary depressed and suicidal. It can even be bigger than that, if a kid you know has bipolar and his family is a rough family(abusive,mean, not understanding of how he is). It's best to give him support and let that kid know your for him to talk to before he thinks suicide is that kids only way out to happyness.

Usually Bipolar kids run on there emotions alot, the usual emotions that a kid feels once he is hit or hurt emotiomally he will feel some of these emotions or most depending on what level your kid was diogonised with Bipolar.

1.Helplessness
2.Thinking he is alone
3.Everything is his fault
4.That people will leave him

There is nothing to cure bipolar at all yet, but if anyone asks what bipolar is, really its when you feel happy one moment and then sad the next. Usually some kids with bipolar will also have Anxiety and Paranoia. But you can tell sometimes if they have that.

a term for someone with bipolar disorder or manic-depressive illness, a mood disorder characterized by periods of depression including:

-persistent sadness
-low energy
-hopelessness
-suicidal thoughts

as well as periods of mania in bipolar I disorder, or hypomania (a less extreme form) in bipolar II disorder. Symptoms of hypomania include:

-grandiose ideas
-racing thoughts
-reckless overindulgence
-high energy/decreased need for sleep

When hypomania escalates into mania, symptoms include:

-incomprehensibly fast thoughts/speech
-dangerously impulsive behavior
-possible psychosis

Contrary to popular belief, most people with bipolar disorder are not constantly fluctuating between extremes. They may experience normal moods for extended periods of time, and a single mood episode tends to last for a few weeks, though mania can quickly become depression and vice versa.

Another common misconception is that bipolar disorder is like depression, but with the bonus of hypomania. Depressive symptoms are equally severe in bipolar I and II disorders, but for people with bipolar I disorder, mania is at least as dangerous and frightening as depression.

Even for those people who experience relatively harmless highs, depression tends to immediately follow hypomania. Whereas major depression can be treated with therapy (as well as medication) and possibly never recur, there is no cure for bipolar disorder and therapy is of limited use. Bipolar disorder has...

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