Use this brief, time-saving bipolar test to help you determine if you may need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder symptoms include switching between phases with feelings of mania and feelings of depression over time. Bipolar disorder is commonly treated with medications and psychotherapy.
This is screening test only; only a licensed mental health professional or physician can make a reliable, accurate diagnosis of this condition.
Instructions:
The items below refer to how you have felt and behaved over much of your life. If you have usually been one way, and have recently changed, your responses should reflect how you have usually been. In order for the results of this quiz to be most accurate, you should be 18 or older and have had at least one episode of depression.
Copyright 1993 Ivan Goldberg. All rights reserved. Adopted from the printed edition of the Goldberg Bipolar Screening Inventory for electronic distribution. For personal use only; other use may be prohibited by law. Used here with permission.
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