manic-depressive

Example Sentences

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“This causes people to be distracted by the manic-depressive nature of the stock instead of creating great products.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

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

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2023

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

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Also important: This way he doesn’t see me cowering in the corner, ashamed of who and what I am: a manic-depressive, perimenopausal woman.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2020

Well, when it first started they said she was a manic-depressive.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones