Synonyms for bipolar disorder
bipo·lar dis·or·der

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1. bipolar disordernoun

   Synonyms:
   manic depression

2. bipolar disordernoun

   A psychiatric diagnostic category, previously called manic depression, characterised by mood swings between great energy (manic) and clinical depression.

   Synonyms:
   manic depression

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1. bipolar disorder, manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosisnoun

   a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

   Synonyms:
   manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis

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1. • Affective Disorder

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1. bipolar disorder

   Synonyms:
   Bipolar disorder

2. bipolar disorder

   Synonyms:
   Bipolar affective disorder, bipolar disease, bipolar illness, manic-depressive disease, manic depressive disorder, manic-depressive illness, manic depression √Bipolar disorder is the term used by the American Psychiatric Association, and is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of clinical subtypes. The synonym manic-depressive disorder is still popular; other synonyms include alternating insanity, alternating psychosis, amphithymia, bipolar affective psychosis, circular psychosis, cyclophrenia, cyclothymia, cyclothymic disorder, erithisophreia, Falret's disease, Falret syndrome, folie circularie, intermittent insanity, intermittent psychosis, manic-depressive disease, manic-depressive disorder, manic-depressive insanity, manic-depressive psychosis, manic-depressive syndrome, periodic insanity, periodic psychosis, recurrent insanity, recurrent psychosis

3. bipolar disorder

   Synonyms:
   Mani-depressive disease, mani-depressive disorder

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1. Caroline Apovian:

   She was older, in her 40s. She had surgery and lost 150 pounds. And then she put herself in front of a bus and died because she had underlying bipolar disorder she had been self-medicating with food, we as a society use a lot of food to hide trauma. What we need in this country is more psychological counseling for everybody, not just for people who undergo bariatric surgery.

2. Max Wiznitzer:

   It’s an interesting association, but causation is definitely not proven, we have to see if there’s a viable and biologically plausible mechanism by which a small amount of lithium in the water supply can somehow do this, yet pharmacologic dosing of lithium in women with bipolar disorder has not been reported to be causing increased risk of ASD.

3. Amit Etkin:

   If we get out of our box of thinking depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder are things that have one set of treatments and start to look at the boxes nearby and draw on tools from those other boxes, that can’t hurt our patient, [It can] only help our ability to treat clinically but also from the research side, [entice] us to think differently about what kind of circuitry to try to intervene with to help people.

4. Seena Fazel:

   One important finding was that the vast majority of depressed persons were not convicted of violent crimes, and that the rates ... are below those for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and considerably lower than for alcohol or drug abuse.

5. Mark Frye:

   We don’t have a lot of treatment options for the depression phase of bipolar disorder, which is very troubling from a public-health standpoint.