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Understanding Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis by Zulvikar Umasangadji is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Bipolar disorder is a serious psychiatric illness that causes shifts in mood between extremes of happiness, high energy, and sadness, fatigue, and despair. It affects about 4% of the US population equally in men and women, usually emerging in the 20s. Bipolar disorder has been described for over 5,000 years, with modern terminology like "manic-depressive illness" emerging in the 1950s and "bipolar disorder" in the 1980s. Diagnosis is based on a patient history and symptoms meeting criteria for bipolar I, II
- Author
- Zulvikar Umasangadji
- Language
- EN