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Is manic-depressive = bipolar disorder?
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Yes: Manic-depression is a descriptive term for bipolar disorder.
Answered 10/20/2021
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Manic depressive: Is old term for bipolar disorder, which can include bipolar type 1, type 2, manic type, depressed type, with psychosis, without psychosis, or nos (not otherwise specified).
Answered 10/24/2017
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Bipolar Disorder: Its an other way of describing the mood fluctuation that does happen with mood disorders. Its the change in moods from lowest depression to extreme mania or high extreme moods.
Answered 3/16/2017
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Interchangable: The terms are interchangable. 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. No one knows how it develops, other than a mystery of genetic confluence.
Answered 10/20/2021
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Yes: They are different names for the same condition
Answered 5/19/2016
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