Thank you BirdDancer. I think you have contributed more than anyone else by researching and consulting the science on various bipolar issues. I would urge everyone to take any statistics with a grain of salt, since we dont know how reputable a study was., etc etc. I think its always better to have some kind of figures than having nothing to go on. However, I just met another bipolar person at my gym and according to these figures, the odds of that happening make it almost impossible. Bipolar 2 can look so much like unipolar depression, and so many more people are diagnosed today due to better awareness in the public and in the medical profession that an old study could be a bit off. Let’s hope for more research on these disorders. There are studies underway trying to isolate the bipolar gene/s, but these things take time. They are making headway using CRISPR for gene editing so there is great hope for the future, especially for future generations.
New treatments are becoming more well known. Unfor tunately,after 40 yrs w this disorder, I am becoming more and more wary of some of the existing practices. Thank you, PsychCentral, BirdDancer, Skeezyks, and Sarah Sweets in particular for looking at the research for us.