bipolar disorder

1. (clinical psychology, psychiatry) A psychiatric diagnostic category, previously called manic depression, characterised by mood swings between great energy (mania) and clinical depression.
   • 2003, Jane Mountain, Bipolar Disorder: Insights for Recovery‎, page 102:

     It^[switching] is a term frequently used with children with bipolar disorder who may experience switching of mood multiple times throughout the day.

   • 2010, Valerie Porr, Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder‎, page 51:

     The rapid mood shifts that people with BPD^{[borderline personality disorder]} experience often lead to their being misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder. It is important to make the distinction between the mood shifts that characterize BPD and those of bipolar disorder.

• bipolar affective disorder
• manic depression
• schizomania

• bipolar
• BP

• French: trouble bipolaire
• German: bipolare Störung
• Italian: psicosi maniaco-depressiva
• Portuguese: transtorno bipolar
• Russian: биполя́рное расстро́йство
• Spanish: trastorno bipolar