How to Use manic depression in a Sentence

manic depression

noun

• Mania is also the main feature of bipolar disorder, which used to be known as manic depression.
  — Jessica Migala, Health.com, 28 June 2021
• Bipolar historically was known as manic depression, and some people will still call it that.
  — Jacqueline Andriakos, SELF, 6 Dec. 2018
• He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which was then called manic depression.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Roberts makes a convincing case for a diagnosis of severe manic depression.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
• Fascism, a misogynistic art world and manic depression are among the subjects dealt with in Paula Rego’s art.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Later in life, Duke was diagnosed with manic depression, now called bipolar disorder.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
• Johnston struggled throughout his life with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and manic depression.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Since being diagnosed with schizophrenia and manic depression, performances from Johnston have been seldom seen.
  — Efrain Dorado, RedEye Chicago, 11 Oct. 2017
• This was the beginning of Brigetta’s journey toward managing her manic depression.
  — Jessica Ciosek, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• Eventually, he was declared to be suffering from manic depression, or bipolar disorder, as it is now called, and the diagnosis stuck.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• She had been diagnosed with manic depression, but lithium stabilized her, the newspaper reported.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
• Since then, researchers have found that people with genetic markers for colorblindness and a specific blood type were susceptible to manic depression.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• In real life, Annaliese Michel was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy and manic depression (now known as bipolar disorder).
  — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• Once called manic depression, the disorder causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, concentration, and the ability to carry out routine tasks.
  — Katharine Q. Seelye, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
• When Jones was 14, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, manic depression and bipolar disorder, her mother said.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Our parents — hard-working, blue-collar immigrant citizens — never imagined that their son suffered from manic depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
  — Lizzy Feliciano, STAT, 29 May 2021
• Carter had been vocal about his struggles with substance use, as well as various mental health conditions — including personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety and manic depression.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2022
• The former child star had been vocal about his struggles with substance use, as well as various mental health conditions — including personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety and manic depression.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Eating disorders, cutting, depression, suicide, manic depression — in the popular imagination, all these things are most often seen as the struggles of young, wealthy, white American women.
  — Tariro Mzezewa, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Beginning in his teens, Dan was beset by mental troubles variously diagnosed, and medicated, as schizophrenia, depression or manic depression.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2022
• Treatment for schizophrenia, manic depression, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder is typically limited to medication in jails.
  — Thalia Beaty, ProPublica, 16 June 2020
• The piano notes symbolize manic depression, seesawing between low and high, as Joel navigates a crumbling relationship and internalizes his conflictions.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
• The officer also recognized the woman as someone whos suffers from manic depression and schizophrenia and who displays victim-like behavior associated with victims of domestic violence.
  — cleveland, 8 July 2022
• Bipolar disorder, which is sometimes called manic depression, is a mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings between highs (mania) and lows (depression), according to the Mayo Clinic.
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 15 Sep. 2018
• In 2019, Carter spoke out about his mental health issues and revealed he'd been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety and manic depression.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
• 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