Bipolar vs Depression - What's the difference?
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Involving or having both extremes or poles) at the same time.
* 1992 , Paul Gilbert, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness ,
* 1997 , David A. Lake, Patrick M. Morgan, Regional Orders: Building Security in a New World ,
* 2006 , Leandro Herrero, The Leader with Seven Faces: finding your own ways to practice leadership in today's organization ,
Relating to both polar regions
(physics) Relating to a bipole
Relating to or having bipolar disorder.
* 2005 , Barbara E. Bryden, Sundial: Theoretical Relationships Between Psychological Type, Talent, and Disease ,
* 2005 , Robert H. Coombs (editor), Family Therapy Review: Preparing for Comprehensive and Licensing Examinations ,
* 2006 , Jon P. Bloch, Jeffrey A. Naser, The everything health guide to adult bipolar disorder
(lb) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
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(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
(lb) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
(lb) A period of major economic contraction.
Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
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A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
As an adjective bipolar
is involving or having both extremes or poles) at the same time.As a noun depression is
an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.bipolar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (4) the unipolar-bipolar' distinction is important in regard to these personality variables; the trait of extraversion (associated as it is with positive affectivity) may mean that individual variation here leads to a more ' bipolar pattern; ...
- Pakistan greatly resents this, but its efforts to adjust the complex have involved trying to make it more bipolar (via nuclear weapons), and not to move to another security order.
- And today, the world has become more and more bipolar .
- And in both visual artists and creative writers, there is a considerably higher risk of affective disorder, more unipolar (depression only) in artists, and more bipolar (mania and depression) in writers, and leading to higher rates of alcoholism and suicide, particularly in writers (Andreasen 1987; DeLong & Aldershof, 1988; Jamison, 1986, 1995).
- Since many childhood depressions become more bipolar' in adult life, and because Jay's father was '''bipolar''', I added Depakote to "protect" him against this ' bipolar possibility.
- If a bipolar' person you work with is receiving successful treatment, you might not even know that she is ' bipolar .