What is "manic-depressive"

Usage examples of "manic-depressive".

A psychological examiner raised the possibility of a bipolar, or manic-depressive, disorder.

Rarely, though, for such a handsome person, he was equally liked by men, and that, I thought, lay somewhere in his manic-depressive spectrum, from which he offered a friendship that could be wildly scatty but had no sex in it.

In the manic-depressive personality we frequently find a strong, if not overbearing, Parent, which contains contradictory commands and permissions recorded very early - probably, on the basis of Piaget's observations, during the first two years of life - when the Adult in the little person is first engaged in working out a system of cause-and-effect.

The manic-depressive individual cannot report what precipitated either his high or his low, as was the case in the beginning.

Since in the early years this approval or rebuke was demonstrated most frequently by oral gratifications or denials, the mood swings of the manic-depressive grownup also are related to the 'life is rich' feeling of the manic phase and the 'life is empty' feeling of the depressive phase.

The greatest difficulty in treating the manic-depressive personality is that very early the child gave up asking why, in fact decided never to ask again.

In the United States there are probably two and half million people with manic-depressive disorder.

Now, if you trace the natural course of the manic-depressive disorder in a patient before and after they have undertaken a course of lithium treatment, there is a phenomenal difference.

Before we had lithium, manic-depressive patients spent approximately twenty-five percent of their adult lives in hospitals.

What we have discovered through studies on manic-depressive psy­chosis is a tight linkage—for the first time—between a highly specific diagnosis, a specific medication, and a predictable clinical benefit.

This relates to both manic-depressive illness and to schizophrenia, both being mental disorders that run in families.

In manic-depressive disorder, women are slightly more affected than men, but it is almost even.

Damien told Griffin that he had been in a psychiatric hospital, where he was diagnosed manic-depressive and schizophrenic.

You know I'm manic-depressive, bipolar, whatever the hell you shrinks want to call my condition.

Unusually, though, for such a handsome person, he was equally liked by men, and that, I thought, lay somewhere in his manic-depressive spectrum, from which he offered a friendship that could be wildly scatty but had no sex in it.