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Here’s why people miss signs of bipolar vs depression, straight from child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Judith Joseph .
Bipolar disorder symptoms and depressive episodes / depression symptoms can overlap. Bipolar disorder is often misdiagnosed (over-diagnosed) in children, yet goes misdiagnosed in adulthood and is often mistaken for depression or borderline personality disorder (BPD).
00:00 Intro
00:35 High functioning depression v major depression
02:05 Depressive episodes are not depression
02:32 Why hypomania & mania signs are missed
03:46 How someone grows up with bipolar misdiagnosis
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