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The other category of mood disorders that I mentioned is bipolar disorders.
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And as I said, bipolar disorder involves symptoms or periods of depression
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but then also distinct periods of the opposite of depression,
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which we call "mania". So, the person cycles back and forth
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between debilitating depressions and manic episodes.
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So, let me describe manic episodes to you now.
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So, the first criterion is that instead of feeling down,
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blue or depressed the person has an abnormally
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and persistently elevated expansive or irritable mood
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that isn't just, again, a good day because you won a prize
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or got an "A," but rather, it's this unusually positive,
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expansive mood for at least one week persistently.