A new finger-prick blood test could help improve the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which affects 1.3 million people in the UK.It takes an average of nine-and-a-half years to be diagnosed with bipolar, which is characterised by periods of manic highs and depressive low moods.People with the condition are typically misdiagnosed three times before receiving the proper diagnosis, because the depressive symptoms are often mistaken for other mental health conditions: 40 per cent are wrongly told they have major depressive disorder (MDD), according to research.
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