manic-depressive
Example Sentences
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“This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products.”
Much has changed since Tiberius and John Law and Jefferson Davis, but not the manic-depressive nature of speculative markets.
I know only that my mother, while still in fourth grade, watched Tomoyo go through a manic-depressive episode.
From Seattle Times
Violaine was 10 at the time of that crash; her mother, subsequently hospitalized and diagnosed as manic-depressive, was 42.
From New York Times
Characterized by extreme shifts in mood, “manic-depressive illness” was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952.
From New York Times
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