n replaces clarity... you stop keeping up with it-memory goes. Infectious humor ceases to amuse. Your friends become frightened.... everything is now against the grain... you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and trapped." (qtd. In http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm , 2004, page 4.)
             A mood swing can be characterized as a manic episode if it fits three or more of the symptoms nearly all day lon
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