Rather than give you a short version that may leave out something, here is the National Institute of Mental Health's webpage for Bi-Polar disorder:
[url="http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm"]http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolar.cfm[/url]
Then be sure to come back and ask some of us who live with it the rest of the questions you probably have!
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