An expert perspective — grounded in clinical knowledge and lived experience with bipolar — clears up the confusion. Trigger warning: this article contains a clinical discussion of suicide, which may ...

We know he should be diagnosed with something! When psychologists and psychiatrists are in training, they have a tendency to want to diagnose themselves with everything they're learning about. Turns ...

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder characterized by alternating episodes of depression (i.e., low mood and a loss of interest in everyday activities) and mania (i.e., a state in which arousal ...

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a chronically recurring condition involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and the lows of depression. Depression is by far the most ...

Having an excessive desire for sexual activity or sexual activity that is extremely frequent, such as compulsively masturbating or watching pornography, can signal hypersexuality. You may have also ...

But for a portion of pregnant and postpartum women who screen positive for depression, the true diagnosis is something else. Around 1 in 5 women initially diagnosed with postpartum depression will ...