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Bipolar
II and bipolar spectrum disorder
Table
1. Bipolarity: clues in the history
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Recurrent major
depressive episodes (> 3)
- Early age of onset
of major depressive episode (< age 25)
- Family history
of bipolar disorder in first-degree relative
- Hyperthymic [over-active]
personality (at baseline, nondepressed state)
- Atypical depressive
symptoms (DSM-IV criteria)
- Brief major depressive
episodes (on average, < 3 months)
- Psychotic major
depressive episodes
- Postpartum depression
- Antidepressant-induced
mania or hypomania
- Antidepressant
"wear-off" (acute but not prophylactic response)
- Lack of response
to 3 adequate antidepressant treatment trials
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