manic

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And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that†™ s how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself.

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  1. adjective Psychiatry Relating to, affected by, or resembling mania.

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  • Kriegel had grown quite manic, a situation easily explained by the bottle of purple pills Norman had spotted on his desk. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • Linda was strangely manic, as if she had wanted to tell someone this story long ago but had never dared—first because she was scared, then because she was paid. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • They could see that they just barely had him convinced—Wise figured him for a manic-depressive, he told me later—and they decided to record that same afternoon. —  June, 1943
  • I had him diagnosed as manic, the judge as suffering from cerebral arteriosclerosis, a side effect of which is senile dementia. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
  • I'm not saying every Keaton performance has to be as manic or brilliiant as —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Greek manikos, mad, from maniā, madness; see mania.

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  1. Greek μανικός, mad, insane, from μανία, madness: see mania.
 

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