Bipolarity
...friend Dan Granger. His uncle let us stay at his house, which I thought was cool. His wife told us how nice it was going to be to have us there. Then she told us how well everything was going with them. Which I didn't really care but I listened anyway.
Come to find out that Dan's uncles wife is bipolar. I had never met anybody who had a bipolar disorder. She seemed fine when I talked to her but then while we were eating she started to cry. I freaked out when she yelled she couldn't take this anymore. Luckily Dan's uncle wasn't there so I just played it off as nothing. Then she started to tell Dan and I how bad off they were and that they were going bankrupt. After that I talked to Dan's uncle and he told me that she does this once in a while. He thought that I knew before I came down there. I guess Dan just forgot to warn me. Now on with the good stuff.
Bipolarity was only a theory at best in the 16th and 17th century when Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh suffered from bipolar disorder. It appears that there are many people with the disorder yet, no true causes or cures for the disorder. Bipolarity severely undermines their ability to obtain and sustain social and occupational success. However, the journey for the causes and cures for the Bipolarity must continue.
Affective disorders are primarily characterized by depressed mood, elevated mood or (mania), or alternations of depressed and elevated moods. The classical term is manic-depressive; a newer term is Bipolarity. The two are interchangeable.
Milder forms of a depressive syndrome are called dysthymic disorder, mild forms of mania are hypomania and the milder expressions of Bipolarity are called cyclothymic disorders. The use of the term primary disorder refers to the individuals who had no previous disorders or else only episodes of mania or depression. Secondary affective disorder refers to...
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