Her husband, Paul Wilson, was a manic depressive, who spent most of his life in expensive sanatoriums which Perkins had to pay for.

她丈夫，保罗·威尔逊，患有抑郁狂躁症，他的大部分时间都是在昂贵的疗养院里度过的，而他所有的花费都要由贝金斯来担负。

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She told them that her daughter-in-law was manic-depressive.

她告诉他们说她的儿媳妇得了燥狂抑郁病。

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Bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, is not as common as major depression or dysthymia.

双相情感障碍，也叫做躁郁症，并不像重度抑郁症或心境恶劣一样普遍。

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This basically explains the volatility and the manic depressive behavior seen recently as stocks tend to be up one day and then down the next.

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Sophisticates and Wall Streets' quantitative wizards hate the notion, but the stock market is a psychological creature driven as much by a manic depressive pathology as it is by corporate earnings and economic indicators.

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Taylor's fascination with psychology grew out of her own family's experience with mental illness: her father was diagnosed as manic depressive, and in high school, she herself was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, though she was not medicated.

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