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 strong genetic basis and is usually found in families.
People with bipolar disorder are often stereotyped as screw-ups, drug addicts, etc. There is a strong link between bipolar disorder and substance abuse, but many people either recover from or avoid these problems altogether and lead relatively normal, responsible lives.
Your girlfriend when she is mad at you = not bipolar
Anyone bitchy or randomly moody = probably not bipolar
-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 strong genetic basis and is usually found in families.
People with bipolar disorder are often stereotyped as screw-ups, drug addicts, etc. There is a strong link between bipolar disorder and substance abuse, but many people either recover from or avoid these problems altogether and lead relatively normal, responsible lives.
Your girlfriend when she is mad at you = not bipolar
Anyone bitchy or randomly moody = probably not bipolar
The Rilo Kiley song "A Better Son/Daughter" is often thought to be about bipolar disorder:
And sometimes when you're on, you're really fucking on
And your friends, they sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
And sometimes when you're on, you're really fucking on
And your friends, they sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems fucking cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
by jasmocha November 5, 2008
Get the bipolar mug.Person in highest position of power, in government or business, whose mood swings cause great havoc on the economy and the life of large number of people.
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What´s the programming strategy for next season? Dunno... depends on our top bipolar executive.
Why the economy of rich oil countries sucks so absurdly? Oh... they always manage to elect top bipolar presidents.
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Facebook users who seem like cool peeps in person, but get hostile and obsessive while on Facebook. The "facebook mood swings" between mania and depression can be very abrupt.
Facebook Posts:
Rachael Ray: I am perfect. Everyone should be like me!
Lindsay Lohan: I'm pretty cool too!
Rachael Ray: NO! You aren't me. Everything I say is right. If you disagree with me you are wrong.
Rachael Ray:I will now post a recipe for the perfect life, mine. ;) Hope this pisses you off!
Lindsay Lohan: I think you are Facebook bipolar!
Rachael Ray: What? I had a *winking smiley face* you can't get mad if I put a smiley face!
Rachael Ray: I am perfect. Everyone should be like me!
Lindsay Lohan: I'm pretty cool too!
Rachael Ray: NO! You aren't me. Everything I say is right. If you disagree with me you are wrong.
Rachael Ray:I will now post a recipe for the perfect life, mine. ;) Hope this pisses you off!
Lindsay Lohan: I think you are Facebook bipolar!
Rachael Ray: What? I had a *winking smiley face* you can't get mad if I put a smiley face!
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Get the Bipolar Love mug.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.
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.
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