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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...