Learn what’s not true — and what is — when it comes to bipolar disorder, with information from experts, backed by data from ...

TM: You can throw water on the fire and it’ll go out. So you can dump meds on someone and it’ll slow them down, but to pull someone out of depression is really hard. ML: If a ship goes down, it’s ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes significant and sudden changes in mood that involve episodes of mania and sometimes depression. There is no cure for bipolar disorder, so ...

Bipolar II disorder is a mental health condition that involves periods of depression and periods of elevated mood, called hypomania. All forms of bipolar disorder involve shifts in mood and levels of ...

Despite a few similar symptoms, bipolar disorder is not a type of personality disorder. However, it may be misdiagnosed as one, or you can have both. Bipolar disorder is considered a type of mood ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My husband’s brother and paternal uncle were both diagnosed with bipolar disorder. His uncle struggled miserably for decades before his death; his brother has been in and out of ...

The usual advice is to avoid alcohol when you have bipolar. But is moderate drinking ever a good idea? Experts weigh in. You ...

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 ...

“Our study showed a strong association between hallucinogen use that requires care in the emergency room or hospital and ...

Schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder are two conditions that have many differences between them. A class of medicines called antipsychotics can be used to treat both conditions but may cause unwanted ...