Bipolar Multiple Spectra:

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Bipolar multiple spectra helps clinicians to correctly diagnose and treat complex mental health disorders. Clinicians assess symptoms of a single “classified” condition along a traditional spectrum — like autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) — from good to bad to worse. In the case of BD, this traditional spectrum ranges from cyclothymia to bipolar II to bipolar I — from manageable symptoms at one end to severe debilitating symptoms at the other. Increasingly, clinicians are also assessing factors beyond a single disorder — along multiple spectra between comorbid conditions that are linked by shared genetics or environmental risk factors, like bipolar disorder and ADHD. See Bipolar Spectrum Disorder (BSD)

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