manic depressive illness

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1. a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression (noun.state)

hypernym	:	affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder,
definition	:	any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant (noun.state)

hyponym	:	cyclic disorder, cyclothymia, cyclothymic disorder,
definition	:	a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time (noun.state)