When Natasha Tracy was 19, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with minor depression. “I knew this was wrong,” Tracy says. “He hadn’t listened to me. I was suffering from severe, suicidal depression.” In ...

Stephen Ferber, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and the Assistant Director of the Psychiatric Treatment-Resistance ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...

(CNN) — It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe ...

Over the past three weeks, we've lifted the masks of many Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) presentation variations. Today, we'll investigate Mixed Features before moving onto specifiers of onset.

People with Bipolar I disorder have full-blown manic attacks and deep, paralyzing depressions. A World Health Organization survey found the prevalence rate of bipolar I disorder to be 0.6 percent.

Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...