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Originally Posted by Innerzone
Well, it'd not be a decision, but a diagnosis.  But I get what you're saying. It'd be a matter of the number of criteria met and the level of problem it causes in one's life, so it wouldn't matter if "most of" the symptoms were bipolar ones. Does that make sense? Doesn't matter which outnumbers the other -- if enough criteria were met -- for one, the other or both, the respective dx(s) would be appropriate.
I DO think it matters, but don't really want to go into the whys atm.
That aside, it's important the treatment works for one's symptoms. |
The borderline behaviors I am thinking of are the kinds of things people are not likely to be open and vocal about, more internal thought patterns. I don't think it's that likely that all doctors diagnose both properly unless it's the features of BPD that are most obvious. Current psychiatry has an interesting article about how BPD and BP get misdiagnosed. Can't figure out how to link to it...
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dx: Bipolar I (Spring 2014).
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