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Manic depression is an illness that affects how people think, feel, and act. These people have really extreme episodes of mania (highs) and depression (lows.) It happens to about 1% of the population, both equally in men and women. When the person is going throu ....

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.... Unlike a manic episode, the person has lack of energy, and either an appetite loss or gain. Manic depression is a recurrent illness, so a person usually has more than one episode. These episodes can last from weeks to months. They occur whenever and have no certain pattern. Sometimes a stressful life event can trigger an episode, and sometimes they just happen. If a person has more than four episodes a year they are known as “rapid cyclers”. This is more common in women. There is no exact reason for what causes manic depression, but some doctors say that it may be from imbalances of certain kinds of brain chemicals. Heredity also has ....