A 2008 concluded that the diagnosis of bipolar disorder is more a concern now more important than under-diagnosis. Less than half of patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder within the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV (SCID) is described in psychiatric terms for the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

The study by principal investigator Mark Zimmerman, MD, Rhode Iceland Hospital and Brown University researchers was conducted.

Of the 700 patients reported, 145 after a bipolar disorder was diagnosed. However, less than half of the 145 patients (43.4 percent) with bipolar disorder on SCID

diagnosed “Doctors tend to have diseases, they feel more easily diagnose treatment. We suspect that the increasing availability of medicines which were approved for the treatment of bipolar disorder could influence clinicians who do not know whether a patient has bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder err on the side of the diagnosis illness, medication responsive, “said Zimmerman. “This tendency is reinforced by the marketing of pharmaceutical companies to physicians, the literature on the delay and stressed the recognition of bipolar disorder increased, and perhaps to avoid educate clinicians, missing the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.”

main concern with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the course includes the prescription of mood stabilizers as a treatment option. Of course, the earlier the diagnosis the patient lead to dangerous and unnecessary to uncover side effects of medications.

Another problem is the prevalence of children with bipolar disorder is diagnosed. Concomitant diseases can often be confused with bipolar disorder, including symptoms of ADHD attention deficit disorder and that occur in childhood. may be the beginning of the drug abuse and addiction lead.

Patients are often dependent on unnecessary drugs, which must seek to drug treatment. Leading a healthier life with exercise programs and nutrition, people can improve their lives will naturally without the use of opiates and illegal.


Diagnosis of bipolar disorder