A Spectrum Approach to Mood Disorders: Not Fully Bipolar But Not Unipolar--Practical Management

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Contents
1: A Spectrum View Better Fits Reality, But What Happens to Diagnosis?
2: Increasing Rigor and Improving Communication: Non-manic Markers and the Bipolarity Index
3: Anxiety Is a Bipolar Symptom? Mixed States and the Overlapping Criteria Problem
4: Bipolar or Borderline (or PTSD or ADHD)? Managing Difficult Distinctions and Comorbidities
5: Getting Ready for Treatment: Principles, Practices, and Problems
6: Psychotherapy for the Mid-Spectrum Patient: Selling Social Rhythm Therapy with Virtual Darkness
7: Efficacy versus Tolerability: Why Lamotrigine Is the #1 Medication Option for Mid-Spectrum Mood Disorders
8: Low-Dose Lithium Is a Different Drug and Better than Antipsychotics for Mid-Spectrum Patients
9: Before Antipsychotics, More Options to Consider
10: Managing Thyroid: Not to Be Left to Primary Care or Endocrinology
11: Antipsychotics: Which and When from a Mood Spectrum View
12: Antidepressants: Four Controversies and Nine Solutions
Appendix A: Bipolar Disorders, Politics, and Religion
Appendix B: Overdiagnosis, Predictive Value, and Screening Tests
Appendix C: Non-Medication Approaches to Treatment
References
Acknowledgments
Index
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