From high to low, from mania to depression, and from recklessness to listlessness. These are the extremes associated with bipolar disorder, a mental illness characterized by mood unsteadiness that can be serious and disabling.
Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depression or manic-depressive illness manic behavior is one extreme of this disorder, and depression is actually the other.
Dissociative identity disorder - previously known as multiple personality disorder is fairly common effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. Most of us have experienced mild dissociation, which is like daydreaming or getting lost in a moment while working on a project.
However, dissociative identity disorder is a serious form of dissociation, a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a trauma experienced by the person with the disorder.
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