Posted by naughtypuppy on June 1, 2006, at 11:17:38
In reply to Re: MAOIs not good for BPII?, posted by SLS on June 1, 2006, at 7:52:18
> > Bipolar II, atypical depression and mixed anxiety/depression are probably just different names for the same thing. Diagnosis and labels (and treatments) tend to be very trendy. It just depends who your talking to at the time.
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> I can't be sure of this, but I suspect that the presence of mood-reactivity might differentiate between atypical unipolar depression and bipolar disorder. Someone with bipolar depression would be much less likely to experience a mood elevation as a reaction to positive events.
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> - Scott
That sounds right, but what I am getting at is doesn't it make more sense to have just a few diagnostic catgories instead of inventing another one just because of one extra symptom. It seems the more catagories that are created the murkier the picture gets. There is so much crossover of symptoms in DSM IV that it just tends to confuse the issue, particularly since some symptoms can be either present or absent and still meet the diagnostic criteria.
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