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The changes in the DSM-5 reflect the "discovery" that BP and unipolar depression (as I see it, my theory/theories, only one of two types) should be seen as part of a mood disorder continuum (and I believe it stretches further: a psychotic spectrum that is part of a continuum including everyone).
That unipolar depression was part of a continuum together with BP was already proposed by the man that made the distinction between manic-depressive psychosis/insanity and dementia praecox, the latter later being called the schizophrenias (DSM-5 is the first DSM to do away with the old schizophrenia types).
The DSM removed the BP mixed episode and replaced it with a specifier (ironically less specific) that can be used together with all mood disorders.
So far the theory. I'll write more later.
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide.
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Last edited by Icare dixit; May 09, 2016 at 04:55 PM.
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