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Bipolar affective disorder(health)
familial bipolar mood disorder(medicine)
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Bipolar disorder (health)


Also known as manic-depressive illness, a mental illness involving episodes of serious mania and depression. The person's mood usually swings from overly "high" and irritable to sad and hopeless and then back again, with periods of normal mood in between. Periods of abnormal mood and associated physiologic changes last for at least 2 weeks.