The highs feel productive, not disordered, and that is why bipolar is missed for years.

Identifying how mania shows up in your daily life can help you spot early warning signs before a full mood shift takes hold. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder involves mood episodes that vary in ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Bipolar disorder is a condition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows ...

"With bipolar medications, some are fast-acting and can take effect in a matter of hours or days," says Naomi Torres-Mackie, PhD, a clinical psychologist at Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital in ...

A patient of mine, Henry, recently told me his girlfriend asked “Is bipolar disorder ‘real’?” Bipolar disorder certainly was having a real effect on my patient’s life. But Henry’s girlfriend might ...

Anya Francis, a University of Manchester researcher who facilitated the lived experience advisory panel (LEAP) for the research and has experienced bipolar II disorder said, "This work was inspired by ...

Mental health forms a crucial component of overall well-being, yet many conditions remain undiagnosed or misunderstood. Bipolar disorder, characterized by extreme mood swings, affects daily life ...

For nearly a decade, Leah Charles-King knew something was profoundly wrong. It took that long — nine and a half years, in line with the national average — before she received the diagnosis that ...

Researchers tested four ketamine infusions in 68 adults with treatment-resistant bipolar depression. Ketamine reduced depression scores more than midazolam and improved response rates without ...