Bipolar disorder affects about 3% of the population and can have devastating effects. It is the sixth most common cause of disability in the United States. Life-time rates for completed suicide are ...

Image made with elements from Canva. Bipolar disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses—it affects an estimated 40 million people worldwide, about 2.8% of the population. Bipolar disorder can ...

It’s a brain disorder yielding patterns of mood variability and energetic intensity that interfere with healthy adaptive functioning. For most without bipolarity mood doesn’t shift significantly, at ...

Bipolar disorder in women is a complicated mental disorder that is characterised by severe mood swings that extend to emotional heights mania or hypomania, and emotional depths depression. The changes ...

Anger can be a symptom of bipolar disorder — but why does it escalate into intense rage? Here’s how to manage it. Tick-tock, tick-tock, goes the anger clock. Jeffrey M.’s wife has just said something ...

Join us for NAMI Talks- as we honor World Bipolar Day, we bring you an informative and dynamic talk this month on bipolar disorder. We will be joined by NAMI NoVA Peer Volunteer, Reed Semedo-Strauss, ...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness highlights mental health struggles through 40 self-portraits at the Sarasota Art Museum.

An early predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been found in youth with bipolar disorder (BD), in new findings that may explain the "excessive and premature mortality" related to heart disease ...

A neuroimaging study in Italy found that patients with bipolar disorder reporting more adverse childhood experiences tended ...