What is Bipolar Disorder? What is Manic Depression?

huh? flippant? you think I have cancer? well I'm confused but on a serious matter I seem to have offended people who know 100% that they are Bi Polar. I'm sorry. I was just trying to figure myself out and at the time I was hyper so maybe that accounts for it, but whatever it was I'm sorry for that particular comment :*)

"a recent finding was that exercise is NOT effective in treating depression."
Could you send me a link to that study please?

You are an ignoramus. Would you comment such flippant comments about the symptoms of a cancer? Clearly you don't need to put on any act about being a retard.

it literally feels like two opposite poles in my personality. im either on my way up, or hitting rock bottom. it alternates about every 30 min according to my fiance. i am getting back on meds again. i always tell myself its just in my head or blame external factors that trigger my moods. its hard acccepting you have a chemical imbalance/mental illness. just hope i can learn to stay on my medicine because everytime the medicine works, i feel normal again and think i don't need the meds.

I have bipolar disorder and I have tried at least 30 different prescriptions and NOT ONE OF THEM HAS EVER WORKED. However, I can take a few tokes of MARIJUANA in the morning, a few tokes in the evening, and I function just fine. I am not a "POTHEAD", I take about 3 to 4 tokes at a time. NATION-WIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA NOW!!!!!!!!!

AHHHH! I think I have Bi Polar! Last night I was REEALLLY hyper and before I watched this I was just fine and dandy and now I'm hyper again AHHHH!

my question is how does paranoia fit into the equation?

pills arent made to solve the problem,, its a type of help that should go in hand with therapy... you cant expect to take a pill and make it all better,, of course it will take care of your panic attack or anxiety attack, but only temporarily... you also have to truly lay down your cards, with or without help,, but like they said before,, its all in your head and in your power and its in your power to ask for help and/or take a pill to help yourself,,
but thats me and it could be wrong

T_T I got in trouble in school for being bipolar...
I felt isolated in school

hmmm i dont buy that they may be wrong i think sex and exercise are a cure for almost everything i think

a recent finding was that exercise is NOT effective in treating depression.

bipfrazer"Most people that have bipolar can also have serious a thyroid disorder which effects the amount of hormonnes produced"

what medical journal or publication is that listed in bipfrazer? Shoot me an email with the links to the studies which have been done which prove most people with bipolar have thyroid issues please.

You want to talk about weight gain? Lets talk antipsychotics and lithium and an unwanted 80 pounds in 6 months. Lost all the weight when I went off those horrid meds.

riiiiight. Red Herring and Straw Man and Ad Hom you people can't debate here any better than the political vids or the atheist vs religion vids. Learn to hold proper discourse and leave out the logical fallacies. You fail at making a logical argument transhuman.

It's all a big, giant conspiracy, isn't it? All the universities, Ph.Ds, research institutes, mental healthcare programs around the world... they're all in on it! Your juvenile perspective on mental health is a bit of a cliche now, with the implication being that all alternatives to Big Pharma are much cheaper, much safer, and far more likely to work, and that mental illness has no biological basis. Those 100 billion neurons in our brain always function perfectly. Schizophrenia must be fake too!

the problem is that i dont want to even balance my moods... i fead off the highs of the manic... its like doing drugs