Depression and Anxiety Combined: Could It Be Bipolar Disorder II? SelfWork #149
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Depression and anxiety turn up in several mental illnesses. Yet when there's a definite mood cycle -- when one energy level of mood becomes apparent, either a too up or too down, and then another eventually takes it place -- this can earn the diagnosis of Bipolar II Disorder if certain criteria are met. I'll talk about what Bipolar II is exactly and relay the stories of two people with Bipolar Disorder, Julie Kraft and Jennifer Marshall, both well-known advocates for talking openly about mental illness. And I'll focus on what are termed "triggers" and how to manage them, so that you learn how to take care of yourself during those times.
Our listener email is from a man in South America whose perfectionism drove him to try every new self-help technique out there, leaving him exhausted and confused. Maybe we should call it an addiction -- "self-helpism." His question is very thought-provoking and I hope you'll enjoy and learn from it.
Important Links:
Article from the Mayo Clinic on Bipolar Disorder
Article in Psycom on Julie Kraft and her book
Article in Psych Central on ways different people with Bipolar Disorder manage their illness
Jennifer Marshalls Blog : BipolarMomLife.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and I'm so glad you're here at self-work today. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical |
| 0:34.9 | psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. I've been here since 1993, but I |
| 0:39.7 | started podcasting three years ago because I wanted to extend the walls of my practice to |
| 0:45.2 | those of you who might already have a relationship with a therapist and be learning |
| 0:50.4 | and growing to those of you who've been diagnosed recently with depression or anxiety |
| 0:55.6 | or perhaps you're just having relationship problems that you can't seem to solve. |
| 1:00.1 | And then there's that third group. |
| 1:02.0 | Those of you who may believe that therapy is about whining, |
| 1:06.0 | that you really don't think you could ever darken the door of a therapist, but you're just curious enough |
| 1:11.1 | to listen to one like me. To all of you or those of you who don't |
| 1:15.3 | fit these categories, welcome to self-work. This is the third in our series on |
| 1:20.8 | aspects of depression that perhaps don't get talked about as much as others. |
| 1:26.1 | Today we're going to be talking about the marriage of anxiety and depression. |
| 1:30.1 | Sometimes that can be that both simply exist. |
| 1:33.0 | But if there's a cycle, a mood comes suddenly and go suddenly, |
| 1:38.0 | then you have to wonder when you've got both anxiety and depression present |
| 1:42.0 | about what's called bipolar two disorder. |
| 1:46.0 | We'll talk about its differences from bipolar one, which is probably more of what you think of |
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