Bipolar Depression
Bipolar disorder is a serious disorder of the brain often confuse with depression alone.
Bipolar disorder was formerly called manic-depressive disorder. It is a type of depression, and it characterized by the presence of mood swings, especially "manic highs" that often result in high risk, self-damaging behavior.
Most individuals with bipolar disorder have both depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes.
The first to describe mania and melancholia as a bipolar disorder was the Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia in the first century AD. He considered melancholia and mania as two manifestations of one and the same disease.
Almost 70 percent of all those with bipolar disorder are depressed at any one time. People who cycle spend three times as much time being depressed as being maniac.
When bipolar is insufficiently treated, people spend an average of four months of the year in depression.
In bipolar depression people are likely to sleep more, rather than less. Normally people with bipolar depression are more likely to have an earlier onset of symptoms and a greater number of depression episodes.
Bipolar Depression
Depression commonly refers to a relatively transitory, negative mood experienced by human. The terms depression or depressed are used in both the ordinary, non-clinical sense and to refer specifically to pathology, especially when the mood of depression has reached a level of severity and/or duration that warrants a clinical diagnosis.
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