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• n  a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness
• s  suffering from a disorder characterized by alternating mania and depression

• The sun, the earth's own star, is mildly manic-depressive, passing from quiet to excitement on a roughly eleven-year cycle.
• She focused on raising their children and entertaining in their Georgetown home until the increasingly manic-depressive Phil committed suicide in 1963.
• KAY JAMISON: Using her history of manic-depressive illness to understand and help other victims.

News & Articles

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• From snow to cold to rain, winter can't make up mind
  Nature's manic-depressive run of temperatures over the past week took the blame for blowing a hole in a crusty six-inch water main on Eastman Avenue. "The cold and the warm. The cold and the warm.
  Jan. 13, 2014 - Foxboro Reporter

Quotes

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• Stephen Fry in International Herald Tribune
  I came across the book while I was researching 'Chinatown,' for something set in the past, and here I come across this story of a young writer, struggling in LA to find identity as a writer, he's insecure, he's manic-depressive -- all of those... Robert Towne http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Towne&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGJDHQTD1LVqj4h92h7Yab4W-lTog WFtv.com http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.wftv.com/entertainment/8068633/detail.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG_ejGOer2pXorsdKDmlfQ1QaZA8A Mar 16, 2006 61052 81502 manic This documentary was very important to me ...... Manic depression is a pandemic chronic condition," said Fry. "We need to understand much more about it and most of all we need to address the urgent problem of the stigma."