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What is Bipolar Disorder?

Bipolar disorder affects a person's mood, energy, and ability to function through everyday normal living. Also known as manic depression, this disorder affects the brain with severe symptoms of emotions of happiness and sadness. They are not normal ups and downs but extreme mood swings which cannot be easily controlled by the sufferer. Sometimes the sufferer doesn't even know what is occurring within their body and lose control.

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