Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, thank you to all of our followers here in the United States and internationally.

It's a pleasure and extreme enjoyment to be able to do this every week.

I really appreciate all the comments and feedback and I like when you guys email me

questions. You know, the Q&A stuff is really fun. Some of the stuff I've talked to you guys,

I can answer, you know, in an email or a short phone call. But again, we, we is, as the podcast has

continued to grow, realizing what a diverse audience we have, as I mentioned, we have people

who are professionals in the field. We have students who are going into the field. We have people who are struggling

with a lot of the different topics and disorders that I talk about. And people just curious

about mental health and family members who or people in relationships with individuals with mental health.

And, you know, as I repeatedly say, mental health is a very real thing.

And it is, I think we've gotten better at legitimizing it.

But I think we have a long way to go to give it the same parity as medical conditions. So I wanted to focus on, just

because I think because I diagnosed a few in the last, I think the last week or two, we've talked

a lot about like bipolarity, but I've alluded to this, but I don't last week or two, we've talked a lot about, like, bipolarity, but I've alluded to

this, but I don't think I ever dedicated a specific episode to a specific type of bipolar

that a lot of people don't know about, which is called cyclothymic disorder, or psychothymia.

We've talked about bipolar one, which is the most severe, which the old term was manic

depressive.

And if you think of bipolar 2, which is a tamped down version of bipolar 1, really the differentiating factor in the most basic level between mania and

hypomania mania manian bipolar 1 hypomania hypomania bipolar 2 is the symptoms are the same is the

duration of time and bipolar 1 you know we've talked about, and Julie's mentioned, is really, the bipolar

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