There Are Too Many Bipolar Disorder Diagnoses

A supervising psychiatrist examines a problematic trend

Mark D Rego
Elemental
Published in
6 min readSep 9, 2020

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Casual references to bipolar disorder are tossed around these days with alarming frequency.

We’ve all heard someone say “that’s my OCD” when double checking plans or details, or perhaps “he’s schizophrenic about that” to describe an ambivalent person. And of course…

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Mark D Rego
Elemental

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