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usually by observing symptoms and behavior during an active episode. It is very obvious in most cases. when there is no active episode you can't diagnose it at all except retrospectively from patient's subjective history.

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Testing is done by psychologist to determine whether or not someone has Bipolar disorder or something similar to it.

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