Bipolar disorder or bipolarity is a mental health problem that causes extreme mood swings. It was formerly called manic depression because it makes you have emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression). When you are depressed, you may feel sad and you lose pleasure in most activities, but when your mood shifts to mania, you may be overwhelmed by euphoria or you may feel full of energy, even irritable.
Contrary to popular belief, these mood swings may occur rarely or multiple times a year and this is a mental health condition for life, only treated with medications and psychotherapy. Some of the symptoms that you may have are: abnormally upbeat, increased energy, euphoria, decreased need for sleep and unusual talkativeness among others when we talk about the mania state, and feeling sad, empty or hopeless, loss of interest in almost all activities, insomnia, restlessness, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness and suicidal thoughts if you are having a major depressive episode. Please, visit your doctor or a mental health professional if you have any depression or mania symptom. Bipolar disorder does not get better on its own.