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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)
  • His "self-medicating" all these years was apparently due to the fact that he had ADD and bipolar disorder.†   (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)
  • The thing I know about bipolar disorder is that it's a label.   (source)
  • What do you know about bipolar disorder?   (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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