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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition where a person has phases of feeling very 'up', high or manic, and phases where they feel very 'down', low or depressed.

These mood swings are much more extreme than the mood changes that most of us feel from time to time. They last from days to weeks at a time.

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