manic-depressive

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Much has changed since Tiberius and John Law and Jefferson Davis, but not the manic-depressive nature of speculative markets.

From The Wall Street Journal

I know only that my mother, while still in fourth grade, watched Tomoyo go through a manic-depressive episode.

From Seattle Times

Violaine was 10 at the time of that crash; her mother, subsequently hospitalized and diagnosed as manic-depressive, was 42.

From New York Times

Characterized by extreme shifts in mood, “manic-depressive illness” was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952.

From New York Times

Iris, stately in her silk trousers and Nehru jacket, introducing herself in the group meetings as “a manic-depressive of 27 years’ standing.”

From New York Times