The main reason for the change of the terms is peoples fears. The term manic depressive seems harsher and depression may not be the best terms to describe the disorder.
Patients experiencing mania as a result of bipolar disorder will require long-term care to prevent recurrence; bipolar disorder is a chronic condition that requires lifelong observation and treatment after diagnosis
The correct term is bipolar disorder. Some people call it a disease though.
If you are referring to bipolar disorder, it used to be called manic-depression.
The term for a condition characterized by chronic, mild bipolar disorder with mood swings is called cyclothymia.
Hippocrates describes it although he does not call it bipolar, that term is recent.
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Yes, the term "Bipolar Disorder" is typically capitalized as it is a specific mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings.
A world has a north and a south pole.
It's an anthropological term, rather than a psychological term. I believe it refers to a class of stone tools.
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).