What Is Bipolar Disorder?

Question: What is bipolar disorder?Answer: Bipolar disorder is a brain disease; it's a chronic disease just like diabetes, or lupus, or cardiovascular disease. It can start at any time in a person's life and it's a lifelong illness. It is not curable, but it is treatable with medications and psychotherapy.The symptoms of the illness are extreme mood swings. A person can alternate either highly irritability, or euphoria, or sometimes a combination of both with periods of extreme depression, and...Full Story