[ELI5] What happens in the brain of someone suffering from bipolar disorder that creates such a divide between moods and why does it happen in cycles?
In: Biology
It’s typically not a physical problem that manifests as manic depressive swing, it’s a neurotransmitter imbalance.
The human body is amazing in that it can generally maintain some semblance of homeostasis with some wacky shit going on, but when you start having neurotransmitter issues everything gets all fucked up.
That’s not to say that the neurotransmitter issue can’t be cause led by a physical deformity, but the manic/depressive cycles are typically just an effect of cascading imbalance.
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