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Old Dec 23, 2016, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ArielHoney View Post
I'm still so confused! I don't know what I am...but I'm way more manic than depressed usually. Sometimes I am both manic and depressed at the same time. I don't stay super depressed for too long anymore, about 3-5 days than switch rapidly to mania for 5-14 days. I don't sleep, I don't eat, it's like a natural form of cocaine(which I used to be addicted to few years ago for self medication of my depressive episodes.) Now though, it's like I have a cocaine storage that lasts for nearly 2 weeks at a time, but without actually doing it. I've evolved so much since my first diagnosis...do you guys think I need to be re-diagnosed?
What you describe would be BP1. The code depends on the state you were in when diagnosed (again), when your treatment ended and whether you were diagnosed before September 2015. The new code starts with F31. and ends with a number smaller than 8 (0–7; F31.8(1) is used for BP2 and F31.9 for BP NOS or Unspecified bipolar disorder). Only whether it's F31.81/F31.9 or not (BP2/BP-NOS or not) is important, but it still doesn't matter much and you don't have to remember these codes. They're used for bookkeeping only.

BP used to be called manic-depression (or manic-depressive illness or psychosis). BP1 is manic-depression and it was called BP1 when BP2 was added to describe another type of bipolar (two-way, let's say) mood changes. The unspecified version was added as a diagnostic category so that if doctors aren't sure whether it's BP1 or BP2 they can use that one.

Maybe you used to have BP2, but, again, what you describe sounds like BP1. But it's probably not something you should be too concerned about. I'd expect your psychiatrist to change the diagnosis if necessary. What's important is what you describe in your own words, not what some book says and which codes they use.
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