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[fag_addict]

Bipolar Disorder is a diagnosis in psychiatry and some other mental health professions describing a prolonged pattern of periods of mania (or hypomania or mixed states) alternating with periods of clinical depression (or depressed or euthymic mood). The mood problems can vary in severity and chronicity (sometimes lasting a lifetime) and affect

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[mayawaya]

i believe that everyone is bipolar to a certain extent.

[tarandfeathrhim]

I think that's based on a misunderstanding of bipolar disorder. So many people look at the description and say "Hey, my moods fluctuate, I'm probably bipolar!", where actual bipolar people are almost completely debilitated by their disorder in a way that is almost completely unmistakable.

[mayawaya]

I'm sorry if I offended you, and I completely agree with you. I was just meaning it to a "certain extent" in which I was talking about mood fluctuations.

[mayawaya]

Oh no no you didn't offend me, I understand, I kind of thought I was bipolar until I actually met bipolar people.