currently undiagnosed Rapid-Cycling, but this may change. I find all diagnoses to be helpful not in terms of putting me into a box, but so that I can recognize all the possible twists and turns my illness throws me. Rapid cycling may be a marker for persistent, subsyndromal symptoms. Rapid cycling is defined clinically as 4 distinct mood episodes—switching to the opposite pole or 2 episodes of the same pole separated by ≥8 weeks of partial or full recovery—in the previous 12 months. Rapid cycling usually is diagnosed retrospectively—introducing patients’ recall bias—but may be more of a marker for symptom persistence than for defined episodes.
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