A Case of Bedroom Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder is the medical name for manic depression.
Bipolar disorder is a neurobiological brain disorder involving extremes in mood.
The mood can range from deep depression to an extreme high state, or mania. Hamlet portrays Hamlet as a character perfectly fitting criteria for this disease. The bedroom scene between Hamlet and his mother, the Queen, indicates perfectly Hamlet s personality disorder. A few passages give the reader clues that Hamlet is suffering from this illness. Many people that suffer from bipolar disorder have a sort of depression with flattened or non-existent emotion.