What if a patient includes symptoms of mania in their description of their anchor point for depression (most depressed state)?
Some patients describe manic symptoms such as agitation, racing thoughts or lack of sleep during their most extreme depressed state. The patient identifies this severe agitation as depression. This may be recorded as the most depressed state for the patient. * Bauer M, Grof P, Gyulai L, Rasgon N, Glenn T, Whybrow PC. Using Technology To Improve Longitudinal Studies: Self-Reporting In Bipolar Disorder.
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