Posted by deuce224 on June 2, 2006, at 22:54:07
In reply to What Do You Think Of All the New Types of Bipolar?, posted by Phillipa on June 2, 2006, at 13:34:24
I think there must be a spectrum. Antidepressants haven't been working for me, but they haven't made me manic either. I have the classical symptoms of atypical depression, but my last psych thought I might be bipolar 2. I was reading a journal article ,"Atypical depression: a variant of bipolar II or a bridge between unipolar and bipolar II." This would explain the reason why often times when lithium is added to an antidepressant that works best for atypical depression/treatment resistant depression. So the way I see it the spectrum goes like this: Bipolar I, Bipolar II, "Bipolar III", Atypical depression, Unipolar depression.
Does anyone else think that this is the case?
joe
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