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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow
I think that would qualify as bipolar. I don't know exactly why he would say bipolar episode but not say bipolar, but I don't think you can have an episode without having the disorder, just by how the diagnostic criteria work. He may not want to say if you are BP1 or BP2 just yet or something like that. He definetely prescribed meds that would go with a BP diagnosis.
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I agree ... I've never heard of a "bipolar episode," I think that the mania is what typifies BP disorder, you don't even need to have the depressive counterpart for a diagnosis.
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