What Is Bipolar Disorder?

What is bipolar disorder? What does it mean? What happens? What causes it?

I get asked these questions, and I can only explain what bipolar disorder means for me, not what psychiatrists and researchers say about it. I've spent the last twenty years coping with this illness, but I don't know everything.

When I saw this video in my feed, I decided to check it out to see if it could help me explain what bipolar disorder is when other people ask. Instead, I learned things about my brain I didn't know.

The video is short, under six minutes, and filled with good information.