Need expert help here. what are the signs of manic depression?

Build a mood history: Develop a factual, accurate ; descriptive diary in objective terms: like days, amounts, frequencies in addition to adjectives like "bad". Chart new episodes as they happen in detail. Report them and talk to a good psychotherapist about these symptoms and together you will come to a conclusion about being manic-depressive. Anything less is rumor and can lead to unnecessary medication, etc. Best!

During depressive: Phase it looks like clinical depression. During manic phase racing thoughts, speech, sleeplessness till you crash, fantasies of invincibility or grandieur, interpersonal conflicts.

Bipolar Disorder: is a mood disorder that can present with possible symptoms of mania, hypomania, depression, mixed state and normal state. Mania or hypomania: 1 may show aggression, agitation, v judgment & impulse control, distractability, rapid thoughts & speech, ^ libido, V sleep, spending sprees, high risk behaviors, elation, ^ physical activity or psychosis. When depressed 1 may have low mood, v energy level

Bipolar: Manic depression, known clinically as Bipolar I and bipolar II, In the first, manic phases are more severe, and in the second, depressive phases are more severe. There is also cyclothymia which is a low grade version of bipolar disorder in general, where mood swings are not as severe in either direction, manic or depressive.

Bipolar: Manic depression is a mood disorder that presents with extreme highs & lows, with at least few weeks of manic phases (abnormally elevated mood & energy level) alternating with few or more weeks of depressed phases (sad, guilty, hopeless/helpless, changes in sleep/appetite/energy level). Any phase can be severe enough to experience delusions or hallucinations.