Bipolar Disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a serious medical illness that causes shifts in a person's feelings and energy. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe interfering with normal every day functioning.  This mental illness causes a person’s mood to swing from excessively “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless.

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