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Definition of manic depression in English: manic depressionnoun another term for bipolar disorder Example sentencesExamples - He had been plagued with mental illness and manic depression during his life, suffering no fewer than ten breakdowns.
- This range is emphasized in people suffering from manic depression, a disorder which brings on strong depression as well as extreme happiness.
- I didn't know it at the time, but he was under a psychiatrist's care for manic depression and several other mental illnesses.
- He suffered from manic depression after shell shock in World War II and the festival has been timed to coincide with Mental Health Week.
- You are about to market a drug that cures anxiety, manic depression, and schizophrenia.
Usage The term manic depression is now felt to have negative connotations, and is being replaced by less loaded terms such as bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder. People with the condition can be referred to simply as bipolar, or as having bipolar disorder Derivatives noun & adjective Psychological states that are genetic, like manic-depressive disorder, are extraordinarily difficult to change. Example sentencesExamples - My father's father, I am told, was manic-depressive back in the days when those words rarely appeared together or separately.
- These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics.
- Hair analyses reveal that manic-depressives often have high copper levels in their hair, but the copper does not seem to be getting into the cells properly.
- At first, Fisher may have ignored her friends' pleas, but she eventually found a psychiatrist, and a support group for manic-depressives.
Definition of manic depression in US English: manic depressionnounˈˌmænɪk dəˈprɛʃən another term for bipolar disorder Example sentencesExamples - This range is emphasized in people suffering from manic depression, a disorder which brings on strong depression as well as extreme happiness.
- You are about to market a drug that cures anxiety, manic depression, and schizophrenia.
- I didn't know it at the time, but he was under a psychiatrist's care for manic depression and several other mental illnesses.
- He suffered from manic depression after shell shock in World War II and the festival has been timed to coincide with Mental Health Week.
- He had been plagued with mental illness and manic depression during his life, suffering no fewer than ten breakdowns.
Usage The term manic depression has largely been replaced with the term bipolar disorder, which many feel has a less negative connotation. People with the condition can be referred to simply as bipolar, or as having bipolar disorder |