This story discusses suicidality and bipolar disorder. If you or someone you know if contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. When Dawn Howard was ...
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What is bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.4% of US adults at some point in their lives, according to the ...
Bipolar disorder causes extreme mood swings that range from manic highs to depressive lows, disrupting every aspect of life. Unlike ordinary mood changes everyone experiences, bipolar episodes are ...
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend recently bought a new car on a whim and announced he was leaving on a cross-country trip without planning a destination or duration. Now he’s uninterested in any activity ...
A team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, along with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Sage Bionetworks, has won the Mood Challenge for ResearchKit, a contest ...
Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...
For many people who have bipolar I, lithium is that most elusive of pharmacological treatments, the “magic bullet”—a single intervention that completely eliminates the symptoms of a disease. Since the ...
Stranger Things star David Harbour is opening up about the reality of living with bipolar disorder.Harbour was diagnosed with ...
The World Health Organization reports that tens of millions of individuals across the globe are living with bipolar disorder. Despite that prevalence, many people still have misconceptions about ...