This is the latest in our series of posts looking at thinking difficulties in dealing with bipolar disorder. As I noted in Problems Thinking, the pioneering diagnostician Emil Kraepelin referred to “amentia” in his description of what he described as manic-depression (a term he coined) way back in the early twentieth century. Similarly, there is widespread consensus among today’s experts that cognitive dysfunction needs to be regarded as a core feature of bipolar disorder.
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