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She had been diagnosed with manic depression, but lithium stabilized her, the newspaper reported.
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Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Lithium is a mood stabilizer used to treat mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and manic depression.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as a mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels and concentration.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The struggles continued, including the singer being committed to a mental hospital by her father in the early 1980s, where she was diagnosed with manic depression.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 July 2025
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Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Lithium is a mood stabilizer used to treat mental illnesses like bipolar disorder and manic depression.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as a mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels and concentration.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The struggles continued, including the singer being committed to a mental hospital by her father in the early 1980s, where she was diagnosed with manic depression.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 July 2025
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“Manic depression.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manic%20depression. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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manic depression
noun
variants
or manic-depression
: bipolar disorder
Able to stabilize the mood swings of many people with manic depression, lithium revolutionized psychiatric therapy when the drug came on the scene several decades ago.—J. Travis, Science News
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