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Old Sep 21, 2018, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by BirdDancer View Post
People can rapid cycle with no mixed episodes. Are you referring to ultra or ultra rapid cycling?

I had a year where I had rapid cycling (4 or more episodes in a year period). One or two episodes were pure depression, one a pure manic, and maybe two or three where they started pure manic and ended mixed (simultaneously depressed and manic). They were all separated by periods of stability or threshold stability.
—I see what you mean. I don’t want semantics to get in the way here. I am using the word semantics because I don’twant to define everything by the DSM. Why? They have to try to label things but I am so skeptical of the entire psychiatric profession with its ridiculous 15 minute office visits at this point that I am loath to buy into a system that fails on so many levels.