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Manic-depressive psychosis - psychiatric diagnosis of mental disorder, which manifests itself affective states - manic (hypomanic) and depressive and mixed states in which the patient"s symptoms of depression and mania at the same time (eg, depression with overexcitement, anxiety, or euphoria with inhibition - the so-called unproductive mania), or rapid change of symptoms (hypo) mania and (sub) depression.
These states are periodically into phases, directly or through the "light" periods of mental health (the so-called interphase or intermissions), replace each other, without or almost without loss of mental function, even when a large number of carry-over phase and duration of any illness.