When Georgeanne appears in your office, she reports that you are her third therapist and that she has been told before that she has episodes too frequently and needs to find a way to stabilize her mood. She can never identify when the episodes will come, but knows that every year for the past four years, her mood has gone through four or five changes each year without ever seeming to disappear completely. Georgeanne qualifies for which of the following specifiers?

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The rapid cycling specifier applies to Georgeanne's case because her episodes occur at least four times each year and she has no sense of recovery between episodes. These episodes can be depressive, mixed, or manic, or any combination of the three.

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