Bipolar I Disorder (mot to be confused with Bipolar II). Highest
suicide rate, mania, to include hallucinations and hearing voices,
often violence. Bipolar I disorder also includes hypomania and
severe depression.
The term "Bipolar" at one time was known as Manic Depressive
Illness. Currently, the name for the illness has come to include,
erroneously, the Bipolar II. Bipolar II does not have the element
of mania that Bipolar I does.
Actually Bipolar II does have a manic element, but it is
hypomanic, which is a lot less severe than the mania of Bipolar I.
A lot of people, like me, start out as Bipolar II but become
Bipolar I when they have their first full-blown manic attack (I
prefer attack to episode because that's what it is--an attack on
the mind).