BI-POLAR Bi Polar Disorder is a type of mental illness that involes a disorder of mood. The person's mood usually swings between overly high or manic to sad and hopeless, and then back again with periods of normal mood inbetween. The manic mood is a euphoric, pleasurable, and productive state. Manic Mood can however, involve potentially dangerous lapses of judgment, impulsivity, and potentially self destructive behavior. The depressed stage is similar to major depression and involves feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and in the most servere forms thoughts of suicide