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Over the last decade or so, bipolar disorder, once considered a rare and devastating condition, has become one of the most widely diagnosed mental disorders. No longer denoting a severe and distinctive form of disturbance usually requiring specialist care, and often compulsory admission and treatment, the bipolar label is now applied to a whole gamut of human problems and general practitioners, family doctors and patients themselves are increasingly making the diagnosis and seeking and initiating treatment.
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Moncrieff, J. (2014). The Medicalization of ‘Ups and Downs’: The Marketing of the New Bipolar Disorder. In: Speed, E., Moncrieff, J., Rapley, M. (eds) De-Medicalizing Misery II. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304667_7
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