"The swings in mood from depression to mania that afflict people with bipolar disorder can be tempered with drugs such as lithium, but adding an antidepressant drug to ease the depression component is not helpful, new research suggests.

Depressive episodes are the main cause of disability for people with bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, according to the report in The New England Journal of Medicine."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070426/hl_nm/bipolar_depression_dc_1

Perhaps this is good news for some sufferers of Bipolar Disorder?

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