manic depression

NOUN

bipolar disorder

Synonyms

WEAK

bipolar affective disorder bipolar illness manic-depression manic-depressive disorder manic-depressive psychosis

Example Sentences

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However, her career was overshadowed by a long period of mental illness, including manic depression, which she wrote about in her book, Diamonds Behind My Eyes, published in 1997.

From BBC

He’d struggled for years with manic depression and was getting counseling from a free clinic, but that, too, shuttered.

From Washington Times

In January Chakraborty confided to the friend, who does not want to be named, that he had been given a range of diagnoses, from manic depression to schizophrenia, and eventually bipolar disorder.

From The Guardian

“My mother was diagnosed with — at the time they were calling it manic depression — and I saw such an extreme version,” she told People.

From Fox News

Kay Redfield Jamison’s recent biography, “Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire,” is the first to draw on all the poet’s medical records, and offers the fullest portrayal yet of his manic depression.

From New York Times