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blueoctober · Oct 22, 2010, 05:14 PM

I received an e-mail from the bipolar magazine I subscribed to and it had this interesting statistic on bipolar depression:

While episodes of mania or hypomania clinch the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, day-to-day it’s depression that most of us experience most of the time. As Donna Jackel reports in the new issue of bp Magazine, “People with bipolar I experience depression three times as often as mania. For bipolar II, the ratio of time spent in depression versus mania is a whopping 40:1.”