Thread: (Hypo)mania?
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Old Nov 26, 2017, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by ciderguy View Post
The only differentiation between “hypomanic” and “manic” behaviour that I have gleaned from the DSM-5 is the length of the episode.
I thought it was severity, like psychosis = mania. But maybe I have BP type I & II jumbled with it because I thought hypomania only meant type II. I have had long episodes that were fairly low grade and my t and pdoc still refer to that as hypomania.
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