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I think the mania only has to be 1 week, and the hypomania more than 4 days, but it’s not really important for anything other than research. I only care whether or not my treatment is reducing or eliminating my symptoms. The diagnosis just gives the professionals ideas on how to treat the illness. One of my medications for my bipolar is a birth control pill. I don’t think that is standard treatment at all, but it means hormones don’t trigger a depressive episode. I’m glad my doctors were willing to use off label treatments.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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