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About 4.5 percent of people in the US experience bipolar disorder at some point in their lives. It affects equal numbers of men and women, and the average age it appears is 25. There are several ...

Although men and women appear to be equally affected by bipolar disorder, rapid cycling is seen more often in women. Women also tend to experience more depressive and mixed-state episodes than do men.

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Leading up to hospital visits, usually well-functioning people now afflicted with mania had experienced multiple days, even weeks of out-of-baseline mood symptoms and behaviors beyond their control.