The main differences between bipolar 1 and bipolar 2 are the severity of manic episodes, and whether or not someone ...

Medically reviewed by Aleesha Grier, PsyD Bipolar 1 causes mania, while bipolar 2 leads to hypomania and depression.You can use medications and psychotherapy to help manage symptoms for bipolar 1 and ...

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

The more challenging aspects of bipolar symptom identification involve the subtler aspects of mood elevation associated with bipolar II disorder. Because BP II mood elevation is not as intense, it’s ...

When Natasha Tracy was 19, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with minor depression. “I knew this was wrong,” Tracy says. “He hadn’t listened to me. I was suffering from severe, suicidal depression.” In ...

Women are more likely than men to develop bipolar 2 disorder, a subtype of the condition characterized by longer and more frequent episodes of depressive symptoms than bipolar 1. Bipolar disorder is a ...

"I didn't want to believe it," she said of her diagnosis. Mariah Carey has revealed she was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, saying she is speaking out about her mental health now because she is ...

Whether you live with bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder, you experience periods of depression. This can make it hard to tell them apart. But the bi-in bipolar means “two” because it has ...

While it’s become mainstream to talk about mental health conditions like depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder continues to be misunderstood and even misused as a term by the general public. People ...

The celebrity face of bipolar disorder has typically been, well, sort of crazy (think Britney Spears or, so it’s been speculated, Charlie Sheen). So when a publicist for Catherine Zeta-Jones — who has ...

Imagine wading through severe depression for years, taking medication after medication, with no relief. Now, envision discovering that what you were facing was not major depression but bipolar ...