How Is Major Depression Different from Bipolar Disorder?

How Is Major Depression Different from Bipolar Disorder? (0:47)

Major depression is different from bipolar disorder in that the main symptom for depression is unipolar, while bipolar disorder has symptoms of both depression and mania. Watch psychologist Jeffrey Gardere, PhD, explain these important differences.

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Major depression is different than bipolar disorder though there may be some similarities but, looking at the major difference when we are talking about depression we are talking about unipolar depression. In other words just the depression and nothing else. Bipolar disorder we have depression and we have mania and they do alternate.

Mania to depression, depression to mania. So again the difference between the two major depression is unipolar, one direction just depression. Bipolar disorder is depression and mania.