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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
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.
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—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.