Q: What is bipolar disorder?
Bipolar used to be known as manic depression and is a mental health condition where you have phases of feeling very up, high or manic, and phases where you feel very down or depressed. These mood swings are much more extreme than the mood changes that most people feel from time to time. They last from days to weeks at a time.
You can feel elated or high when you are in manic phase and in utter despair during the depressive phase. Occasionally people can also experience mixed state moods, where symptoms of mania and depression are present at the same time. In between phases they may feel okay.
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