manic depression

English

Noun

manic depression (uncountable)

1. (clinical psychology) A psychiatric diagnostic category, now called bipolar disorder, characterised by mood swings between great energy (manic) and clinical depression.

Synonyms

• bipolar disorder

Translations

bipolar disorder

Chinese: Mandarin: 躁鬱症 (cmn), 躁郁症 (cmn) (zàoyùzhèng) Czech: maniodepresivní psychóza (cs) f. Danish: maniodepressiv sindslidelse (da) Finnish: maanis-depressiivinen (fi)

Greek: μανιοκατάθλιψη (el) (maniokatáthlipsi) f. Italian: sindrome maniaco-depressiva Japanese: 躁鬱病 (ja) (そううつびょう, sōutsubyō) Turkish: manik depresyon (tr)

References

• bipolar disorder on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:bipolar disorder