Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that affects 4.4% of US adults at some point in their lives, according to the ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness marked by extreme swings in your mood, energy, and thinking. Although it’s not an official symptom of bipolar disorder, some research suggests that it also may ...

Mood tracking can be an effective tool for managing and preventing bipolar disorder episodes. Here’s how it works. Living with bipolar disorder can be overwhelming at times. The shifts between ...

Diagnosing bipolar disorder can be difficult. While it is not hard to distinguish between its two characteristic phases—the high spirits of mania and the low spirits of depression—it is challenging to ...

Women are more likely than men to develop bipolar 2 disorder, a subtype of the condition characterized by longer and more frequent episodes of depressive symptoms than bipolar 1. Bipolar disorder is a ...

Treatment for bipolar depression has come a long way from the days (not so long ago) when patients were given sedatives and medications with numerous side effects. Today, mood stabilizing drugs are a ...

Host of Healthline podcasts Inside Mental Health and Inside Bipolar. As someone who lives with bipolar disorder, there are many things about my life that society gets wrong, one of which is that ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity.

It wasn’t every day that Patricia Torres raced down the streets of Miami at 70 m.p.h. But then it wasn’t every day that her daughter Nicole Cabezas hallucinated wildly, trying to jump out of the car, ...

Gay people may be more likely to experience difficulties with their mental health. This is mainly the result of the stigma and discrimination they face. Being lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) may ...

It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe a mental ...