adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
manic depression
manic depressive
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
depression
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The booklet deals with lithium, the drug used for manic depression .
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Doctors have treated manic depression with lithium carbonate since the 1970s.
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He still looked rather tired, having spent several weeks in hospital undergoing treatment for manic depression .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Williams is a comedian with a lot of manic energy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Events unfolded with a manic slowness at first.
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In manic or bipolar depression, bouts of depression alternate with periods of excessive elation or mania of similar length.
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It was a wide, manic and utterly humourless rictus.
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Lee Evans' as a manic human wind-up toy.
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Let us take a forceful manic who is displaying and functioning on 500 arbitrary units of life force.
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The manic with 500 units of directed purpose has been cleared.
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There was a manic air to the way he ate his steak and kidney pie.
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Thus Wish veers dizzily from gleeful whimsy to cosmic angst; from unconfident extroversion to manic introspection.