Your friends introduced you to a new member in your theater actors guild. She easily caught everybodys attention with her energy and extraordinary cheeriness. That nights practice has ended and everybody was raring to get home. However, your new found friend surprisingly invited you to go the disco. You declined but gave her your home number instead. You awoke to a call and heard her sobbing on the phone. She was ranting about how miserable her life is and how she just wants to end her life right there and then! Nobody would want to be in this shocking situation but what you just read is a reality of a brain disorder called bipolar mania or manic-depressive illness.

According to World Health Organization (WHO), the sixth leading cause of disability in the world is bipolar disease and adolescent bipolar. And the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has confirmed that a staggering number of 3.4 million children and adolescents may actually be suffering from depression, an early- onset of bipolar disorders, in the United States alone. Bipolar disease which is a mental illness has been discovered to cause a lot of problems both in how people live and their individual health.

Bipolar disease, otherwise known as Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder. The actual definition of bipolar disease is that a person has one or more episodes of abnormally elevated or manic moods, followed by depressive episodes or symptoms. Often, Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that causes a person to experience these shifts in moods very quickly, going from one to the other in a short amount of time. Sometimes, a person will have mixed episodes, in which they are both manic and depressed at the same time.

The classifications within the broader term of bipolar disorder have narrowed due to the increased number of studies and diagnosis done over a number of years. One of these narrowing classifications that have helped to identify the various types and kinds of bipolar is bipolar 2. People who suffer from bipolar 2 often experience symptoms such as swinging from depressed to hypo manic states without the manic states or manic depression that is found in bipolar 1.