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Screening for Bipolar: Have You Ever Been "Unusually Happy" for More than a Week?


In a recent article published in the journal
Current Medical Research and Opinion, researchers funded by AbbVie (a pharmaceutical company that sells several medications for depression and bipolar disorder) stated that they had developed a six-question “Rapid Screening Tool” for diagnosing bipolar I.
This screening tool is now being promoted in outlets such as
Yet, as even a quick look at the research paper reveals, this questionnaire wasn’t even tested as a screening tool, and it relies on questions that mistake adverse reactions to antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs as symptoms of bipolar disorder.
But this publication also suggests a larger subject: Is there any evidence for “screening” for psychiatric disorders? And what are the potential harms? ....

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