1. Bipolar Disorder
What is Bipolar Disorder? ... According to the DSM-IV-TR (p. 345), the two principal forms of Bipolar disorder are: Bipolar I disorder, the diagnosis of which requires over the entire course of the patient's life at least one manic (or mixed state) episode which is usually (though not always) accompanied by episodes of Major Depressive disorder. Bipolar II disorder, which over the course of the patient's life must involve at least one Major Depressive episode and must be accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode; i.e. there need be no full manic episodes at all- (Wikipedia...
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