Every night my husband and I embark on the ritual of laying out the pills just so, arranged by color. This is a constant reminder that I am bipolar and that I will be taking these meds for the rest of ...

We've long known that gender affects how people experience bipolar disorder, impacting everything from what symptoms they experience to the specific point in life when the disorder first appears. But ...

As UConn Health psychiatry residents, we observed early on in our training that each transition between winter and spring was accompanied by surges in volume and intensity of psychiatric presentations ...

Understanding bipolar disorder goes beyond its diagnostic checklist to the everyday symptoms that shape each individual’s ...

People with bipolar 1 disorder will experience frequent episodes of depression, hypomania -- an elevated mood somewhat milder than mania -- and mania, says Dr. Samar McCutcheon, a psychiatrist in the ...

One day you’re bouncing off the walls with energy, speaking a mile-a-minute, and doing the absolute most. The next, you can’t get out of bed…and stay there for a week. This is the typical bipolar ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health problem that affects mood. People with bipolar experience manic episodes, periods of depression, and potentially some psychotic symptoms, according to mental health ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes significant and sudden changes in mood that involve episodes of mania and sometimes depression. There is no cure for bipolar disorder, so ...

Bipolar disorder often is initially misdiagnosed because some of its symptoms are similar to other mental illnesses. People who are bipolar experience both intense highs and lows. These severe mood ...