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In the last few decades the medical profession (psychiatry specifically) has made a concerted effort to shift the vernacular to the official DSM diagnostic term of bipolar disorder. There are a number of reasons cited for this shift:
•"Manic depression" has generally been used to denote a wide array of mental illnesses, and as classification systems have become more sophisticated, the new term of bipolar disorder allows for more clarity in a diagnosis.
•The term "manic depression" has been greatly stigmatized. Consider popular phrases such "manic Monday," Animanics, homicidal maniac, etc. And "depression" is commonly used for periods of sadness that don't really qualify as clinical depression.
•Bipolar disorder is more of a clinical term, less emotionally loaded.
•Manic depression gives emphasis to the predominant emotional symptoms, but implies exclusion of the physical or cognitive symptoms.
•The term also excludes the cyclothymic or hypomanic (bipolar II disorder) versions of the disorder.
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