Bipolar affective disorder is a disorder of mood that involves a depressive phase and a nondepressed or manic phase. Bipolar means literally two opposite poles, thus explaining the meaning of the word. It isn’t quite that simple, though. People can experience the nondepressed or manic phase in more than one way. The mood during the manic phase can be euphoric or irritable or even a combination of the two. Furthermore, people can experience

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