Bipolar depression, previously known as Manic Depression or Bipolar Manic Depression, is a chronic episodic illness associated with behavioral fluctuations. This depression is a brain disorder. The main characteristics of bipolar depression are episodes of serious mania and depression. The patient is normally found with mood swings right from high and irritable to sad and hopeless, getting back to normal mood in between.

Bipolar depression normally occurs in the age of adolescence or early adulthood and continues throughout life. Its a mental disorder free from the limitations of age and duration. It may continue through several years or may be decades.

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Manic Depressive Illness, also known as Bipolar Disorder, is not something that you experience once and then snap out of. It is with you all your life, can make your life an emotional roller coaster of hell, and is something you have to learn to live with.

As human beings, it’s normal for us to swing from happiness to sadness and back again depending on the circumstances. What separates this behavior from manic depressive illness is the intensity of the swings. It’s not unusual for the mood of a person with manic depressive illness to swing from giddy exhilaration to the deepest suicidal depression. It’s trying to control and live with those extremes that can make life very difficult

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DEPRESSION as a psycho-medical condition is broadly classified into three types: unipolar depression, major depressive disorder, and bipolar affective depression. Bipolar affective depression is more serious than the other two types, but all can be treated to the point of cure or a high degree of control. In this report we shall look at how to distinguish between the three types of depression.

Unipolar depression: As said above, this is the less serious of the three types of depression but the most common psychiatric illness affecting 6%-10% of adults. Unipolar depression can usually be attributed, directly or indirectly, to an external stimulus such as a recent incident or an event in the patient’s life, or an illness, or side-effects

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Having diagnosed with bipolar disorder can be one of the most stressful and difficult experiences of a person’s life. To learn to manage bipolar disorder better, whether yourself, with families or friends, it is important to build and maintain a strong support system.

A support system is a group of people who come together to offer unconditional emotional support to the person with bipolar disorder, these people must have the desire to understand the struggle and difficulties of living with bipolar disorder. They can consist of families, friends, support groups, therapists, mental health caseworkers, and even doctors.

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Have you encountered a person undergoing extreme mood swings, or sudden behavioral changes? The person is suffering from bipolar disorder or manic depression. These sudden mood swings can last for hours, days, weeks or even months. Bipolar disorder or manic depression results in quite distinct mood fluctuations that, once traced and analyzed, can be anticipated.

You are in depression when you deviate yourself from your normal activities. Your zest for life gets a backseat because of depression. There is a tendency to isolate oneself from the external environment and develop this strange behavior, which highlights your lack of confidence. Always remember that when you are in depression, others are also affected by the rough patches in your life.

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