enthusiasm

n. 1. (psychiatry) the manic side of a severe and dangerous bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. Treating this condition is often complicated by the patient’s failure to manifest the depressive side of the condition. In such a case, the psychiatrist must take matters into his own hands, bringing the patient under his benevolent control and treating him with powerful mind-altering drugs as soon as possible. Otherwise the depressive side may never be flushed into the light, leaving the poor patient with the delusion that he is happy.





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