Bipolar disorder is the third most common mood disorder after major depression and dysthymic disorder. The disorder (a.k.a Manic-Depression) effects an estimated three million (or 1%) of people in the United States with severe manic-depression and 5-6 million with milder forms of the disorder. Which...

It's nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person's life that person can no longer see the happiness right in front him. Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Ry...

a brilliant madness ¡§Washed up on the shore stranded burning in the sun alone layers of an old life slowly peeling away¡ (Mize 1). This is his misery, this is his demise, this is his life. Bipolar disorder literally grasps the reins of your life control and all aspects experien...