The concept of a drastic shift in mood being classified as an illness was first described by the French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Farlet in 1851 (Marmol, 2008). Farlet coined the term “Folie Circulaire” to label a disorder characterized by manic and sad episodes separated by symptom-free intervals (Marmol, 2008). As time passed, the description along with the classification changed, altering from an entity on its own to a unified disorder with other mood disorders (Marmol, 2008). As it stands today, bipolar disorder (BD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by cycling depressive and manic episodes (Federman, 2010). It also encompasses many other cognitive symptoms …show more content…
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