Read about rapid cycling, a type of bipolar disorder
👍25/2/22 - RAPID CYCLING
‘what is rapid cycling bipolar?
Rapid cycling means that someone will experience many episodes of illness each year.
How many episodes? Well the cut off is essentially arbitrary, but it is taken to be four or more episodes of mania and depression in any one year period. Some people have very rapid switches and in these cases the terms ultra-rapid (days) and ultra-ultra rapid or ultradian (within a day) cycling have also been used.
The diagnosis of rapid cycling is not used by everybody and is not included in all classification systems. For example, although it is included in the American diagnostic system (DSM-IV ) it is not currently part of the international classification system, ICD10.’
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Hmm … ‘not currently part of the the internal classification system’. Well that explains the dreadful un diagnosis experience a couple of summers ago.
That was just appalling.
This article definitely suggests that rapid cycling doesn’t always respond well to medication.
