What does bipolar means?

Question

I' m reading anwsers here, and a lot of people are saying that they are bipolar. I want t oknow meaning of that? And if it is something about changing moods, how do they know that they are bipolar?

thanks.

Answer 1

I am bi polar and I will tell you my moods and what happens. WHen I am manic I buy a lot of things I don't need, I have all this energy and nothing bothers me..an hour later, I am crying and depressed and suicidal. I can be manic 1 minute and suicidal the next. When I am manic I need very little sleep...I have been severely depressed the last few days and now I am sleeping 17-18 hours a day.... Hope that helps..feel free to e-mail me

Answer 2

Bipolar disorder is also known as Manic-Depressive disorder...

This means that a person cycles between periods of Mania (overly happy and energetic) and Depression. These changes can happen FAST too but it can be slow as well...

Basically, it is extreme mood swings... everyone has mood swings but those with bipolar disorder have them 100 times worse...

OH another thing is that there need not be a trigger either (something that sets them off that happens in thier lives). The changes can come for no reason at all and are usually strong enough to exert some amount of control over the person suffering, and everyone around them by extension.

Answer 3

I'm Bi-polar (also called Manic Depression) and if you are really interested in it check out the Book, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison. I know a lot of people who during depression can not get out of bed. Also depression can cause encoding failure making it hard to recall events and especially to study.

During a manic episode thoughts come at extremely fast paised, suffer from insomnia, cant sit still, cant stop talking. feel at the TOP of the world untouchable. can cause you to act VERY carelessly spending money like theres no tomorrow, and pretty much engaging in acts you wouldnt normally do. you feel amazing really. Like a natural high. ^_^

In fact you should check out some brain scans during Mania or depression they look VERY diffrent from a scan of normal brain activity.

Answer 4

is a psychiatric diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences clinical depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. The disorder can cause great distress among those afflicted and those living with them. Bipolar disorder can be a disabling condition, with a higher-than-average risk of death through suicide.

Answer 5

You look up bipolar disorder. It is in the family of depression, but specifically, is when people go back and forth between major depression and mania. Mania is having way too much energy--no sleep, thinking and talking too fast, taking risks.

Answer 6

It is an electrical imbalance within the brain that can be balanced with proper food, exercise, clean thinking and reduced exposure to certain lighting ie, florescent bulbs, t.v., anything that has a strobing effect. Many times it is misdiagnosed when it is actually a result from mental reaction to a childhood that is not supportive of the individual. The neuropathways need to be healed with love and compassion for the self and forgivness for self and others.

Answer 7

Bipolar is when one second you can be very happy and then the next you act really mean.

Answer 8

Bipolar means that you have extreme emotions. You have major highs and major lows.

Answer 9

Unipolar--depression.
Bipolar--depression and mania.

There are a couple good answers above so I just wanted to keep mine short and sweet.

Answer 10

its a made up thing for people who PMS too much. IE: exscuses

but i did meet this one guy waiting in line for a concert and he was really funny and crazy he even randomly ate some left over pizza some one left sitting on the curb,lol. any ways he said he was exstreamly clinicly pipolar and when i saw him inside a couple of hours later he was crying. WOW right?