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Re: Soft Bipolar Disorders » spike4848

Posted by Elizabeth on January 23, 2002, at 15:26:31

In reply to Soft Bipolar Disorders-Repost from Elizabeth(long), posted by spike4848 on January 23, 2002, at 0:00:05

< blush >

I'm very happy to read that you liked it. Looking back over it, I think it would be nice if people started looking at this syndrome as a separate mood disorder. The current fad is, of course, to diagnose it as bipolar II or borderline personality. I think that bipolar II is inaccurate -- this is very different from bipolar disorder -- and borderline personality disorder is perhaps more accurate, but very stigmatizing (how would you like to be told that you have a "personality disorder?"). I think that if this condition were recognized as a mood disorder, it would help sufferers to get adequate treatment (which those diagnosed as "borderline" are often denied, based on the assumption that medications don't help with "personality disorders").

-elizabeth

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