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bipolar II

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Bipolar I refers to individuals who experience depression alternating with out-of-control or psychotic mania, and Bipolar II refers to those who suffer depression and experience hypomanic episodes without loss of control or psychosis.
Some people, however, never develop severe mania but instead experience milder episodes of hypomania that alternate with depression; this form of the illness is called bipolar II disorder.
Five percent of the clients were diagnosed with non-schizophrenic disorders, including bipolar II disorder (n=2) and delusional disorder (n=1).
 
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