Bipolar Disorder (manic depression) has fundamental autonomic components. It manifests as an oscillation between a defensive physiological response that arises when a person's physiological baseline shifts into chronic shutdown (depression), and their movement out of this response into an expansive or euphoric state, often very ungrounded.

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