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Originally Posted by fern46
Good stuff as always BirdDancer! I found this... It references ultra rapid cycling and ultraradian cycling. My guess is it ia a term we now have to describe something that has been observed clinically, but yet to be officially diagnosed.
Ultra-rapid and ultradian cycling in bipolar affective illness. - PubMed - NCBI
Edited to add... I just read your article. It seems in line with what I was thinking. It shows ultraradians cycling as cycling within days or hours. |
Thanks for sharing that, fern!
I think a lot of doctors continue to use the terms "ultra rapid" and "ultradian" cycling, despite the DSM 5. I think for good reason. I have read about doubters, though. Or "purests". Before the DSM 5, officially (according to the DSM-IV) people with bipolar type 2 never experienced mixed episodes/states, but that was so wrong! I know many psychiatrists knew that was wrong, thus its inclusion in the DSM 5 (and the formation of "specifiers"). Obviously the DSM 5 is not perfect and will change. I've read of many psychiatrists who were on the committee for the DSM 5 so angry that they left it because of various objections and dissatisfaction. One example of a major point of contention relates to bipolar disorder dxs in children. Of course that's a whole other major subject.