With the expectations of friends and family to squeeze a high degree of activity and socialization into a short period of ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental condition in which you experience fluctuating episodes of mania and depression. Although there ...

Learn what’s not true — and what is — when it comes to bipolar disorder, with information from experts, backed by data from scientific research.

TM: You can throw water on the fire and it’ll go out. So you can dump meds on someone and it’ll slow them down, but to pull someone out of depression is really hard. ML: If a ship goes down, it’s ...

Despite a few similar symptoms, bipolar disorder is not a type of personality disorder. However, it may be misdiagnosed as one, or you can have both. Bipolar disorder is considered a type of mood ...

Coffee, probably the world’s favorite perker-upper and pooper-shaker, can have surprising benefits to those with severe ...

Moving forward with bipolar disorder isn’t a quick process. The time from my diagnosis until I reached recovery was more than 4 years. Four years is a long time to wait to “be well,” but there are ...

The approval of medicines called second-generation antipsychotics has allowed bipolar I and some conditions that come with it to be treated. A person who has bipolar I disorder can go through various ...

Host of Healthline podcasts Inside Mental Health and Inside Bipolar. As someone who lives with bipolar disorder, there are many things about my life that society gets wrong, one of which is that ...

Social media platforms have created new complications for people with bipolar disorder when evidence of their manic episodes ...

Unipolar depression is a mental health condition that involves a low, sad, or hopeless mood. The term “unipolar,” which comes from the roots “uni” (one) and “polar” (end), means you have symptoms from ...