Ellie Jo, I'm not sure how well accepted it is within the psychiatric community as my first pdoc began with this dx, he being much younger than my new pdoc who uses the DSM in the strictest sense. He says he doesn't see a "clear" bipolar disorder but attributes most symptoms to anxiety & depression & doesn't see evidence of improvement on lithium or APs as an indication of bipolar, I don't either really but first pdoc felt it to be further indication of bipolar.