As well as managing the many comorbidities that commonly occur with bipolar disorder, clinicians must manage the risk of relapse, most commonly of a depressive episode.1
References:
1. Nierenberg AA, Agustini B, Köhler-Forsberg O, et al. Diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder: a review. JAMA 2023; 330 (14): 1370–1380.
2. Dell’Osso B, Shah S, Do D, et al. American tertiary clinic-referred bipolar II disorder versus bipolar I disorder associated with hastened depressive recurrence. Int J Bipolar Disord 2017; 5 (1): 2.