Bipolar depression is an important part of college students’ mental health problems. As an important part of the school curriculum system, the improvement of its teaching methods and contents has an important impact on students’ mental health. From the perspective of educational psychology, the integration of curriculum ideology and politics with college physical education is expected to play an important role in the relief of bipolar depression.

The experiment selected 50 college students in a physical education course as the research object, half of them as the experimental group, received the physical education course treatment under the mode of educational psychology for half a year, and the other half as the control group, received the physical education course treatment with the ideological and political integration of educational psychology course for half a year. After the course, the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire (SASRQ) was used for feedback. The higher the score, the more serious the bipolar depression was.

The students in the experimental group had a more positive attitude, and their physical exercise was also strengthened, with a low feedback score of about 8. In the control group, the remission effect of bipolar depression was not obvious, the learning enthusiasm was not high, and the feedback score was 15 points.

The integration of educational psychology curriculum thinking and politics in college physical education teaching has a positive effect on the alleviation of students’ depression and also provides an important reference for the improvement of college physical education teaching.

The research is supported by: 2023 Zhongshan Vocational and Technical College Scientific Research Project, Design and Development of a Physical Health Management System for College Students (No. KYB2319).