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bipolar disorder
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  • The sad truth was that my dad, a chemist who worked for Kerr-McGee Petroleum, suffered from bipolar disorder.†   (source)
  • Dr. Ghertz uses brain scans to show that there are structural changes in the adolescent brain that not only explain the timing of some major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but also give biological reasons for some of the wild conduct that parents usually attribute to raging hormones.†   (source)
  • I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was eighteen years old.†   (source)
  • It was in this state that I first heard the term bipolar disorder.   (source)
  • What do you know about bipolar disorder?   (source)
  • The thing I know about bipolar disorder is that it's a label.   (source)
  • Years before, I had told her what I'd learned in my psychology class about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but she had shrugged it off.   (source)
  • Fourteen years after the incident with the Weavers, I would sit in a university classroom and listen to a professor of psychology describe something called bipolar disorder.   (source)
  • You've heard that Shay Bourne has bipolar disorder, which was going untreated.†   (source)
  • As he sees it, we're not even really sure what labels like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder mean, nor do we have very strong evidence that medication is the best response.†   (source)
  • He had untreated bipolar disorder, central auditory processing disorder, an inability to deal with sensory overload, and difficulties with reading, writing, and language skills.†   (source)
  • Acquaintances remember him as a socially awkward man-child with an outrageous sense of humor and a squirrelly, almost manic-depressive personality.   (source)
    editor's notes: This is more commonly called bipolar disorder.
  • You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic-depressive!'†   (source)
  • I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was eighteen years old.†   (source)
  • When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts, etc He was suddenly very scared.†   (source)
  • My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia.†   (source)
  • Granny was diagnosed as manic-depressive and was twice confined to the Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric-shock therapy, a treatment in vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • Manic-depressive or paranoid?†   (source)
  • Turkeys seem to be manic-depressive types, gobbling with blushing wattles, spread tails, and scraping wings in amorous bravado at one moment and huddled in craven cowardice the next.†   (source)
  • Gisler's a manic-depressive himself, his wife and her lover run the clinic—of course, you understand that's confidential.†   (source)
  • You know, manic depressive.†   (source)
    editor's notes: This is more commonly called bipolar disorder.
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