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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. This change or âmood swingâ can last for hours, days, weeks, or even months. Typically, someone with bipolar disorder experiences one or two cycles a year, with manic episodes generally occurring in the spring or fall.
It will only make matters worse for him. When people are depressed, they shut other people out even if they don't mean to. It's one of the classic sympoms of clinical depression. From what you said in the question, he is in a situation that can certainly lead to clinical depression. The best thing you could do for him would be to stick with him.