Dr. Joseph Calabrese answers the question: 'What Is Rapid Cycling?' — -- Question: What is rapid cycling? Answer: Rapid cycling is uniformly viewed by clinicians as being the variant of illness ...

Contrary to current practice guidelines, it may not be necessary to avoid antidepressant monotherapy in patients with rapid-cycling bipolar II disorder, a condition characterized by 4 or more episodes ...

Discontinuing rather than maintaining antidepressant medications following treatment of depression in patients with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder (BD) appears to improve outcomes, new research shows.

Rapid cycling is a symptom associated with bipolar disorder where patients quickly cycle through episodes of mania and depression. An average of 12% to 24% of people with bipolar disorder experience ...

Ultra-rapid and ultradian cycling has never been included in the DSM or the ICD as a bipolar disorder specifier and continues to be a topic of debate (e.g., Swann et al., 2013; Shirazi et al., 2017), ...

A vivid, firsthand look at the extreme mood swings in bipolar disorder and the strategies that help create stability. On paper, rapid cycling means having four or more distinct episodes in a year. In ...

Bipolar disorders present a high rate of misdiagnosis issues (e.g., Rakofsky et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2018; McIntyre et al., 2022). This has a lot to do with poor differential diagnosis practice and ...