manic-depressive
having or experiencing bipolar disorder.
a person with this disorder.
Origin of manic-depressive
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How to use manic-depressive in a sentence
In his own words, he is “actually very manic depressive” and can feel the world moving past him.
Saint Laurent was at his best a genius, and at his worst a manic-depressive genius.
In the excited stage of manic-depressive insanity it is not uncommon to find that the memory is abnormally active.
Of the two terms (folie circulaire and manic-depressive insanity) the latter is the more correct.
The mental symptoms, in short, are very similar to those of the elevated stage of manic-depressive insanity.
The cases in this family seem all to be instances of manic-depressive insanity.
Being Well-Born | Michael F. GuyerOccasionally it shows, superficially, a similarity to the manic-depressive type.
Benign Stupors | August Hoch
British Dictionary definitions for manic-depressive
/ psychiatry /
denoting a mental disorder characterized either by an alternation between extreme euphoria and deep depression (bipolar manic-depressive disorder or syndrome) or by depression on its own or (rarely) by elation on its own (unipolar disorder)
a person afflicted with this disorder: Compare cyclothymia
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