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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.
When a person has bipolar disorder, the mood swings are such that they disrupt your life, sometimes completely. You can be so depressed that you cannot get out of bed. You can be so depressed that you don't want to live. You can be so manic that you spend your family's fortune and go into debt.ood swings are changes in mood, the difference in mood swings in regular people and mood swings in bipolar disorder, is the severity and duration. In regular people, the mood swings usually do not interfere with your life.