manic depression

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It used to be known as manic depression, and symptoms include episodes of:

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2024

He was “struggling with manic depression when he died,” according to a news release provided to The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023

And, of course, her best-known work, “An Unquiet Mind,” a memoir she published in 1995 in which she went public with her own manic depression, at considerable personal cost.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

In 2019, Carter said on an episode of the talk show “The Doctors” that he was taking medication for acute anxiety, manic depression and multiple personality disorder.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2022

We can’t go back in time and diagnose him, but from here it looks like a form of epilepsy or, most likely, the beginnings of bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depression.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman