An expert perspective — grounded in clinical knowledge and lived experience with bipolar — clears up the confusion. Trigger warning: this article contains a clinical discussion of suicide, which may ...

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a chronically recurring condition involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and the lows of depression. Depression is by far the most ...

Each of the three college students with elevated mood are examples of the connection between bipolar disorder and behavioral compulsions. The bipolar individual who is caught up in goal directed ...