What is in a bi polar?

Answer 1

Bipolar disorder is a type of depression. There's nothing in it as your question asks. I means you're unhappy (most of the time, but not all the time), you feel stressed out and annoyed sometimes as well.

Wrong! Bipolar disorder is not a type of depression! One can be diagnosed bipolar I and never have had any depression, only mania. Admittedly depression is common with bipolar disorder but they are not the same.

Some forms of bipolar disorder and their typical symptoms:

• bipolar I - at least one manic episode, may or may not have depressive episodes (this was previously called manic depression)
• bipolar II - has never had a manic episode, recurrent depressive episodes (this was previously just diagnosed as recurrent depression)
• cyclothymia - has never had either manic or depressive episodes, only recurrent periods of hypomania (i.e. mild mania) and dysthymia (i.e. mild depression)

Bipolar I & II may or may not have psychosis at the extremes of manic or depressive episodes. Cyclothymia will never have psychosis.