Bipolar Basics

Typing “bipolar test” into a search bar is usually the first step someone takes when their mood patterns start feeling like more than just a…

There’s no blood test for bipolar disorder. No scan lights up and confirms it. That surprises a lot of people, especially when so many other…

Bipolar Symptoms FAQs: Searching “bipolar symptoms” usually leads to long, dense medical pages that are hard to skim when you just need a straight answer….

Emotional Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder: Understanding the Highs, Lows, and In-Between Bipolar disorder is often summed up in one sentence: it causes extreme mood swings….

Bipolar disorder is usually described as a mood condition. But ask anyone living with it, and they’ll tell you it’s felt in the body too…

Rapid Cycling Bipolar Symptoms: Rapid cycling isn’t a separate type of bipolar disorder—it’s a pattern where someone has four or more distinct mood episodes (manic,…

A mixed episode happens when someone experiences symptoms of mania (or hypomania) and depression at the same time, or within the same short stretch of…

Psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder — mainly delusions (firmly held false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or sensing things that aren’t there) — can occur…

Hypomania symptoms include an elevated, expansive, or irritable mood along with increased energy, lasting at least four consecutive days, according to the American Psychiatric Association’s…

Mania symptoms include an abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood along with increased energy, lasting at least one week, according to the American Psychiatric Association’s…