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Bipolar disorder doesn’t just affect mood — it changes how a person thinks, perceives risk, and relates to others. Here’s what’s actually happening inside during mania, depression, and the stable phase.
“Unipolar depression” is a clinical term most people encounter for the first time when trying to understand how their depression differs from bipolar disorder. Here’s what the label actually means.
Bipolar 1 and bipolar 2 share the same mood-swing foundation, but the diagnostic line between them comes down to episode severity, not how “bad” someone’s life looks from the outside.
Your teenage and adult life has felt like a season of Game of Thrones; your weeks are full of extreme ups and downs with very little calm in between. Learning how to stop negotiating with yourself about drinking can quiet that exhausting back-and-forth. Some days, you’re completely wired and feeling on top of the world. You constantly need to be doing something to release the excess energy you have, so you engage in reckless and impulsive behaviors. But then, this manic high is replaced with soul-crushing depression. You feel worthless and as if you can’t do anything right. In an
