How to Use bipolar in a Sentence

bipolar

adjective
  • Joe, the couple learned, suffered from bipolar disorder.
    Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 19 June 2017
  • Piersall talked throughout his life about managing his bipolar illness.
    Paul Doyle, courant.com, 4 June 2017
  • Demi often talks about her own experiences with bipolar disorder and how she's gotten help and practiced self-care to cope with it.
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • Thomas, who had been sober for a year, had started drinking again after the death of a childhood friend and had not been taking medication for bipolar disorder.
    Mike Carter, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
  • The 10-year-old boy’s mother took Depakote for bipolar depression during pregnancy and he was born with spina bifida.
    Tim Bross, Bloomberg.com, 9 June 2017
  • The equatorial low-velocity zone could act as sort of lens, focusing the magnetic field lines into a bipolar field with a magnetic north and a magnetic south.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Heaney has been the most bipolar of the Rangers’ starters.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And there’s a point in late teens that usually is the time that one becomes bipolar.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • Gillian keeps her bipolar mood swings hidden from Andy, her new boyfriend.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And my husband and I have a daughter, Courtney, who is 16 years sober and bipolar.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And my husband and I have a daughter, Courtney, who is 16 years sober and bipolar.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • The Celtics never trailed in the ultimate game of a bipolar series.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2022
  • Robin Roberts that she had been diagnosed with bipolar in 2011.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2021
  • No longer tonally bipolar, the film is one man’s vision, for better or worse.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The employer wanted the man, who had lived in the home about a week, and who is bipolar and suffers from schizophrenia, removed from the home.
    cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
  • There were no tools or help to work with someone with bipolar or even addiction back then.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 31 May 2018
  • How can loved ones support someone who may be showing signs of bipolar I?
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Not that writing about being bipolar and an addict cured her.
    Douglass K. Daniel, SFChronicle.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The Spartans have had a bipolar season thus far – good to great in some games and downright terrible in others.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The bipolar design refers to a current collector that is shared by both a cathode and anode.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And bipolar is a condition that can come with great assets, Michalak said.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Therapy can help people come to terms with the challenges of living with bipolar.
    Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Clumps of ionized gas that showed up in these pixels told the research team there was a bipolar outflow leaving the galaxy from the top and bottom.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 12 May 2024
  • Lapp was bipolar and had a history of mental health problems.
    Matthew Barakat, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • Her boyfriend found out that his cousin had been diagnosed as bipolar, and recognized some of the same symptoms in himself.
    Charlotte Cowles, The Cut, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And while this was happening, my mother, who's bipolar, was leaving voicemails telling me not to trust my friends.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Bodden, who was bipolar and schizophrenic, had been struggling for years, the letter says.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2024
  • With the onset of menopause and the bipolar, her libido had dropped dramatically.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Along with his bipolar disease, the Days of Our Lives star said his doctor warned him about the risks of returning to alcohol after surgery.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The homeless shelters do not work for schizophrenic and bipolar people who have paranoid minds.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024

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