Rapid Cyclist,

Those are such wonderful words. I would cry but may get giddy and then get giddy or cry!

The quite hilarious angle to this thread is that the psychiatric patients are having the same arguments on here as the psychiatrists are without coming to any firm conclusion! Part of me thinks does it matter what it is called but unfortunately if people aren't getting the correct treatment it kinda does....

Just a little about my story. I also had CBT for social anxiety in my 20s. What got me thinking also is that there are also further assertions of the link between SAD and Biopolar. I had the CBT but it did me very little long term good even though I can intellectually understand the concept behind it.

Though not officially a diagnosis it was what my therapist at the time thought I had and then came BP then changed to BPD. Being told you have those three things at different times does make you think when your own research shows some kind of link.

Here is a further article on Cyclothymia Bipolar 2 and Social Anxiety referenced on Wikipedia in the Social Anxiety section.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content...X-5-S1-S54.pdf