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Originally Posted by minakto
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You don't have bipolar by any definition of the DSM V.
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Hardly the be all end all in practice. Nowhere near the bible its made out to be.
Thumping the DSM is the first sign of a quack.
The DSM becomes something that has to be interpreted in practice and is very open to interpretation.
See autism spectrum controversy and the controversial diagnosis criteria for Asperger's for more details. Also see in practice how the DSM is being used to slap schizophrenia diagnoses on patients with your run of the mill bipolar disorder spectrum disorder and vice versa, because they don't want to spend the office time working up bipolar spectrum disorders which take far more work and observation.