Whats the difference between bipolar and “borderline personality disorder”?
If you haven’t heard about “borderline”, you can skip this section. For a complete essay on this topic, read here please. For a discussion on how thinking about “diagnosis” is shifting away from labels like “borderline personality disorder”, toward a concept of symptom “spectrum”, read this essay on bipolar versus borderline. . What s the latest on what causes bipolar disorder? (updated 9/2007) Fortunately this story is getting longer quickly! In other words, our understanding of the causes of bipolar disorder is improving fast. Unfortunately, despite this improvement, much of which has come in the last two years, the manic side of bipolarity is still very much a mystery. By contrast, the story of bipolar depression appears at this point to be very similar if not identical to the story for Major Depression, the “unipolar” form of depression, which is now becoming much clearer. Here is a one paragraph summary. If you would like to see more details, follow the links one paragraph below.
