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Bipolar disorder

How is it diagnosed?

A diagnosis of Bipolar Affective disorder type I describes an illness with one or more manic episodes or mixed episodes. Individuals often have one or more major depressive episodes.

Bipolar Affective disorder type II is characterised by the occurrence of one or more major depressive episodes accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode.

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Medical text written May 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved May 2005 by Professor K Ebmeier, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and Chair, Bipolar Guideline Group, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.

 

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