POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff contests the denial of social security disability benefits that she sought because she is manic depressive ("bipolar," in the current jargon) and disabled by her mental illness from holding gainful employment. Age 36 at the time of her hearing before the administrative law judge, she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade earlier; a psychiatrist had noted a "severe depressive quality to her life, interrupted...
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