Understanding why bipolar disorder symptoms can make it so difficult to recognize when you need mental health help. Looking ...

Bipolar disorders present a high rate of misdiagnosis issues (e.g., Rakofsky et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2018; McIntyre et al., 2022). This has a lot to do with poor differential diagnosis practice and ...

It used to be called manic depression in an effort to capture the swing of emotions from intense manic highs to the lowest of lows. Today it’s called bipolar disorder, another way to describe a mental ...

Mood disorders, such as depressive and bipolar disorders, refer to different psychiatric conditions that affect an individual‘s emotional state. Other types of psychiatric conditions, classified as ...

Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...

Critical Thinking About Ultra-Rapid Cycling Anyone who has worked with bipolar disorder knows that an expansive mood/affect is a hallmark of mania. The patient's affective state is frequently marked ...