A patient of mine, Henry, recently told me his girlfriend asked “Is bipolar disorder ‘real’?” Bipolar disorder certainly was having a real effect on my patient’s life. But Henry’s girlfriend might ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Bipolar disorder is a condition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows ...

Knowing what sets off your bipolar mood shifts can help you act early and stay balanced. Do you have a clear sense of what can shift your mood — the situations, stressors, or habits that tend to throw ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...

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Anya Francis, a University of Manchester researcher who facilitated the lived experience advisory panel (LEAP) for the research and has experienced bipolar II disorder said, "This work was inspired by ...

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature deaths in patients with bipolar disorder worldwide. In a novel study in young adults (aged 20-45) with bipolar disorder researchers were able ...

But for a portion of pregnant and postpartum women who screen positive for depression, the true diagnosis is something else. Around 1 in 5 women initially diagnosed with postpartum depression will ...

It's been a busy week for the cast of Bravo's Real Housewives of Potomac. In addition to baby news, there have been two confirmed exits (Candiace Dillard-Bassett and Robyn Dixon, with the latter ...

For nearly a decade, Leah Charles-King knew something was profoundly wrong. It took that long — nine and a half years, in line with the national average — before she received the diagnosis that ...

Bipolar disorder anger is real — but frequency, intensity, and fallout matter. Use a fast checklist to reset before you react. II can sum up the nature of bipolar disorder in three words: chronic, ...