What is bipolar spectrum? Will it become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2?

Today's video is about bipolar spectrum illness and is based on a viewer question from Saddam. He asks if his diagnosis of bipolar spectrum will later become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2 disorder.

The short answer is that here in the US bipolar spectrum is not an official term. However, it is debated by researchers and clinicians as to whether bipolar disorder and depression really should be considered one bipolar spectrum illness and not be separate diagnoses.

In this video I give the history of bipolar disorder and how it evolved from being manic depressive insanity, to separate diagnoses of major depression and bipolar disorder. Many people believe we should rename both illnesses bipolar spectrum to include other conditions such as:

Recurrent severe depression with psychosis
Depression mixed with manic symptoms
Cyclothymia
Antidepressant induced mania
Anxious depression
Atypical depression

Other videos referenced in this video
Video about Treatment Resistant Depression https://youtu.be/2z5krS51pNg
Video explaining mania and hypomania https://youtu.be/jMleT_rj0xY
Video on psychotic depression https://youtu.be/FF8gpsffwh0
Bipolar playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazcP3-djRZ0IoYFWgkl0_tFtBVqA3bu-
Depression playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazcP3-djRZ3_VgA6P42Z0j3dkfyu6WWk

References for further study
Ghaemi SN. Bipolar spectrum: a review of the concept and a vision for the future. Psychiatry Investig. 2013;10(3):218–224.

Mondimore FM. Kraepelin and manic-depressive insanity: an historical perspective. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2005;17(1):49–52.

Trede K, Salvatore P, Baethge C, Gerhard A, Maggini C, Baldessarini RJ. Manic-depressive illness: evolution in Kraepelin's Textbook, 1883-1926. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2005;13(3):155–178.

Singh T, Williams K. Atypical depression. Psychiatry (Edgmont). 2006;3(4):33–39.

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