I made appointments with a husband-wife psychiatrist-counselor team. The psychiatrist diagnosed me with cyclothymia, a mood disorder that's often considered a milder form of bipolar disorder.

There are three types of bipolar disorder: bipolar 1, bipolar 2 , and cyclothymia. All types cause changes in mood, energy, and activity levels. In bipolar 1, moods range from extreme elevation ...

Bipolar II and cyclothymia prevalence rates are low because most studies have included only bipolar I disorder. Even when bipolar II patterns are included, the difficulty of establishing a history ...