Bipolar disorder formerly known as manic-depression is a condition that affects your moods, which can swing from one extreme to another. People with bipolar disorder have periods or episodes of - depression – feeling very low and lethargic mania – feeling very high and overactive (less severe mania is known as hypomania)
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition where a person has obsessive thoughts and compulsive activity. An obsession is an unwanted and unpleasant thought, image or urge that repeatedly enters a person's mind, causing feelings of anxiety, disgust or unease.
If someone loses control over drinking & has excessive desire to drink its known as dependent drinking i.e. addiction. Dependent drinking usually affects person’s quality of life & relationships, but they may not always find it easy to see or accept this. Following are the criteria. Tolerance : - Severely dependent drinkers are often able to tolerate high level of Addiction in amount that would dangerously affect or even kill some people