Muffet had experimented with LSD when she was young, and received a diagnosis of manic depression.
Bipolar disorder, which is sometimes called manic depression, is marked by mood swings.
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In regards to your particular question, bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is nothing but a description of a certain pattern of symptoms.
His wife was diagnosed with manic depression and his son became addicted to heroin - at one point he had to buy drugs for him.
According to the Manic Depression Fellowship, many patients fail to discuss the issue with their doctor because they are unhappy with the care they have received.
However, his illness had taken its toll on Zeta Jones who, in April 2011, said she had received treatment for bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.
Van Gogh, Mr Gayford says, suffered from bi-polar disorder, a severe form of manic depression which can now be treated with lithium but which then was undiagnosed.
And then, it's as if we were in a manic euphoria before and now we're in a manic depression now, where everything is worse than we expected and everybody's depressed.
"We have launched this guidance to give people with bipolar disorder the information and confidence they need to ensure the care they receive is of the best possible standard, " said Amanda Harris of the Manic Depression Fellowship.
His understanding of the agony and the ecstasy of manic depression displays a level of empathy for the illness never yet found in a novel, a function perhaps of his friendship with fellow-author David Foster Wallace, a real-life depressive who committed suicide in 2008.
According to press accounts of the congressional briefings presented in recent days by a 30-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (who has served for the past three years as its senior national intelligence officer for Latin America), Aristide takes medicine to treat "psychotic manic depression" which can have such symptoms as suicidal tendencies, delusions of persecution and hallucinations.
Whenever I hear of young adults with the type of disabling depression you describe -- and especially when they are men -- I worry that they may go on to have a more serious condition called bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depression.
Bipolar leads to intense mood swings, which can last months, ranging from depression and despair to manic feelings of joy, overactivity and loss of inhibitions.
In the case of bipolar disorder, the pattern requires the presence of at least one manic episode and usually also includes episodes of depression.
Studies suggest that most cases of bipolar disorder start with depressive episodes and that many young people who develop severe depression will eventually go on to have a manic episode.
He drank to cope, "entered a devastating cycle of depression and alcohol abuse, " and became a manic, compulsive gambler in which he lost a "significant amount of money in an attempt to make back business losses, " the lawsuit said.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, khat can induce manic behaviors, hyperactivity and hallucinations while chronic abuse can result in symptoms such as physical exhaustion, violence and suicidal depression.
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