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Going through the emotional highs and lows of bipolar disorder can greatly affect a person’s ability to function in day-to-day life. There’s no cure for bipolar disorder, but treatments can help. But ...

Mood fluctuations are common during normal daily life as a result of either stressful or pleasant events. However, severe and persistent mood swings that result in psychological distress and ...

Are people with bipolar truly responsible for their actions and behaviors when in a state of mania, depression, or psychosis? Living with bipolar disorder is extremely difficult, especially when I ...

About two-thirds of people with bipolar disorder are misdiagnosed with other mental health problems before bipolar is discovered (Hirschfeld, Lewis & Vornik, 2003). Among those individuals, a ...

Anger isn’t a symptom of bipolar disorder, but irritability and restlessness during manic or hypomanic episodes may be perceived as anger by others. Mood stabilizers like lithium can cause side ...

The essential problem in assessing bipolar disorder with other mental disorders is the lack of a clear roadmap for an accurate differential diagnosis. As I have written before, nearly two-thirds of ...