Depression is one of the most crippling, but misunderstood disorders ever encountered. Research has come up with several different types of depression now, each with it’s own unique characteristics and symptoms. However, they’ve also found that some types of depression actually overlap into other kinds too and that they’re original diagnosis of a patient could be wrong. One of the types of depression that is extremely difficult to diagnose is called “bipolar disorder”. Unfortunately, new studies have found that because of these new overlap theories that it can now actually take up to five years (yes, five years) before a person could possibly be correctly diagnosed as “manic” or bipolar. |