Your condition can be frustrating, unpredictable and depressing. But you can take action! Record your experiences, feelings, your treatment regimen, and your body's reaction. This volume consists of 150 plain college-ruled pages. Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is a condition that affects your moods, which can swing from one extreme to another.People with bipolar disorder have periods or episodes of:depression - feeling very low and lethargicmania - feeling very high and overactive (less severe mania is known as hypomania)