Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorder is “an affective disorder that is characterized by at least one episode of mania formerly referred to as manic depression” (Ingram 723). It affects one percent of people throughout the world and knows no ethnic or status boundaries. In the United States, it is estimated that over two million people suffer from this incurable but treatable disorder. Bipolar disorder usually begins to show itself in males in their early twenties. Women however, …

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