Depression, which affects around 10% of the population each year, is also the most common component of another psychiatric illness: bipolar disorder. More than 40% of people with bipolarity are initially diagnosed with depression. This is why it takes on average between eight and ten years before the correct diagnosis is made.
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Having an earlier diagnosis can not only help patients to better understand their illness, better understand it, and learn to recognize and manage the symptoms, but also doctors to prescribe treatments adapted to this illness
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explains Professor Julie Dupouy, general practitioner and member of the National College of Teaching General Practitioners (CNGE). The treatments are indeed different and some of them, incorrectly prescribed during bipolar depression, can even worsen the pathology...
This is why, for several years, researchers have been working…
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