Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that changes mood, energy, sleep, thinking and behavior. A person suffering from this disorder can go from mania to depressive meaning that a person can be feeling very happy and outgoing to feeling sad and being worthless between a few days, or even between a couple of months. Anyone can get bipolar disorder regardless of age, sex, race. Bipolar disorder is also called manic depression because "manic" means when someone with bipolar can feel excited and confident and having these feeling can be dangerous because they can make careless decision making and "depressive" meaning when someone feels sad, depressed, being negative, or avoiding eye contact According to the National Institute of Mental Health
