manic depression

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noun

a mental health problem characterized by an alternation between extreme euphoria and deep depression

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usage for manic depression

Though manic depression, manic-depressive are still often used by the general public, they are seen as having negative connotations. The preferred terms nowadays are bipolar disorder and experiencing bipolar disorder

Words nearby manic depression

mania, maniac, maniacal, maniacally, manic, manic depression, manic-depressive, manic-depressive illness, manic disorder, Manichaean, Manichaeism

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How to use manic depression in a sentence

Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
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Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.
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Adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.
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He did suffer from ‘Black Dog’ [depression] as he called it and having something to concentrate on was therapeutic for him.
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Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.
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The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
Financial depression had succeeded a time of wild excitement, and the Midland dividend had fallen from seven to two per cent.
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Depression of these key-touches brought different combinations of stops into use on the keyboard above which they were placed.
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The true causes of the depression were not within the control of the Insular Government or of any ruling factor.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Even if your first passion for her does cool somewhat, will nothing remain but disenchantment and depression?
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