Bipolar Disorder

What is bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is a mental health problem that mainly affects your mood. If you have bipolar disorder, you’re likely to have times where you experience:

• Manic or hypomanic episodes, which means feeling high.
• Depressive episodes, which means feeling low
• Potentially some psychotic symptoms during manic or depressive episodes
  
  

You might hear these different experiences called mood episodes or states. Depending on the way you experience these moods, and how severely they affect you, your doctor may diagnose you with a particular type of bipolar disorder