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Ryan McCusker English I Prof. M. Donovan Concept paper Depression Among the many mental diseases, bipolar disorder has recently exploded onto our society and still seems to challenge our medical professions. Bipolar disorder has manipulated over 2 million Americans at one point in time or another in their lives (2). It is quickly becoming a recognized disease and is treated very seriously in today's society. There are two types of the bipolar disorder. In the type 1 of the bipolar disorder, which is also the most severe, individuals may experience the incidents of acute depression (2). In the type 2 disorder, manic symptoms are present along with the occurrence of at least one extreme depressive incident. Bipolar disorder is a disease that causes an individual pathological mood swings such as depression and mania. Depression can be characterized as "an emotional state dominated by feelings of sadness, gloominess, or emptiness, which may be associated with...

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