What is the difference between bi-polar disorder and clinical depression?

Answer 1

bi-polar means both sides of the extreme....lethargic/depressed and then energetic/agitated

clinical depression is just that....it may even be just post-partum which is treatable with meds. Bi-polar is a bit more tricky.

Answer 2

Depression means down in the dumps most of the time, while bi-polar is extreme highs and lows. Similar to manic.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Bi-polar have very highs and very lows (like two totally different people). Depression is mainly sad feelings and/or thoughts.

Answer 5

The vast majority of people given either diagnosis do not actually have that condition.

There is a high level corporate marketing arrangement between providers of mental health services and the psych drug companies.

In general the practitioners of mental health do not validate normal human reactions to adverse circumstances, and want to make a more fundamental organic/biochemical/genetic blame for their patient's condition.

It is just like going dishonest mechanics who trick you into paying for things that do not need to be fixed, except it is worse since they are messing with your career/life/freedom.

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Answer 6

In a nutshell, when you're depressed you feel dispair, and lack of interest in much of anything.

When you're bi-polar, you tend to alternate between feeling really good and really bad. That's why this is also referred to (and more descriptively to normal people) as manic depression. You're manic (energetic, optimistic, euphoric) sometimes and other times you're depressed.

Answer 7

bi-polar is a disorder where the person suffers extreme highs and extreme lows, and depression is always low.

Answer 8

Bi-polar you jump from being Super hyper, into a crash very quickly

Depression is when you have too much serotonin in your brain and you feel like you cannot control how you feel, and everything is overwhelming.

Answer 9

With depression I go off into a corner and want to be left alone. With bipolar my brother's girlfriend has mood swings, she's crying, angry , screaming. I'ts scary to watch how someone can change so quickly.

Answer 10

depressed people sleep in bed all day
bi polar people set it on fire n dance around it