What is bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a treatable illness involving extreme changes in mood, thought, energy, and behavior. A person with bipolar disorder has moods that usually alternate between mania, or extremely âupâ mood, and depression, or extremely âdownâ mood.
Ronkonkoma, New York. This article is about the hamlet mostly in the Town of Islip. For the lake, see Lake Ronkonkoma (lake). For the community on the northern and eastern side of the lake, see Lake Ronkonkoma, New York.
The more southerly moraine, known as the Ronkonkoma moraine, forms the backbone of Long Island; it runs primarily through the very center of Long Island, roughly coinciding with the length of the Long Island Expressway. The land to the south of this moraine to the South Shore is the outwash plain of the last glacier.