Mariah Carey made a surprising announcement on Wednesday: She has bipolar disorder. Carey, 48, told People that she was first diagnosed in 2001, after being hospitalized for a physical and mental ...

Bipolar II disorder is a mental health condition that involves periods of depression and periods of elevated mood, called hypomania. All forms of bipolar disorder involve shifts in mood and levels of ...

If you think bipolar disorder describes a mental health condition that can cause extreme changes in mood and behavior, you’ve mostly got the basics. But its two main subtypes—bipolar I and bipolar ...

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Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that's widely misunderstood. In fact, bipolar disorder is more accurately an umbrella term that can refer to a number of specific disorders: bipolar I disorder, ...

I'm struck by how many times I see patients that have previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and they don’t know whether they are bipolar I or II. Furthermore if they have been diagnosed with ...

There is a lot of web-based information that assists people in identifying symptom sets that serve as criteria for the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. For those whose bipolar mood elevations are quite ...

I was diagnosed with bipolar II at a time when everyone thought there was only one type of bipolar disorder. At 21, I’d moved from my home base in Texas to New Jersey. After completing a successful ...

Is treatment for bipolar I different from treatment for bipolar II? Treatment for bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depression, generally involves medications and forms of psychotherapy—whether ...

(CBS News) U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is being treated for bipolar II disorder at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the hospital said Monday in a statement. "Following extensive evaluation, ...

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has “pro-actively” checked into a health care facility, her publicist said Tuesday. Zeta-Jones, 43, entered a mental health facility in 2011 to be treated for bipolar II ...