Bipolar affective disorder

a serious mental illness marked by violent and wild oscillations between extreme euphoria or irritability (mania) and deep depression. although it is technically cl-ssified as a mood disorder, it is one of the few psychiatric conditions in which psychosis occurs; it is usually -ssociated with severe manic states but profound depression may also cause delusions and hallucinations to emerge. the psychotic features are usually mood-congruent, e.g., believing oneself to be jesus christ and lucifer for mania and depression respectively. it’s an illness of extreme opposites in mood, thinking and energy levels and a severe mental disorder that, at least in its cl-ssic form, goes infinitely beyond what mentally healthy people experience and most certainly not to be trivialised. it is also worth noting that the mood swings -ssociated with this disease are sustained and typically last weeks or months, years in the most extreme cases. ultra-ultra rapid cycling (extreme mood shifts in a day) is exceedingly rare.
bipolar affective disorder is a severe mental illness that in its most acute form is potentially worse than schizophrenia.