Maybe there are weeks when everything speeds up and feels limitless, followed by weeks when the floor gives way, and no explanation has ever tied the two together. You want clarity, not another label that half fits. Our Bipolar Disorder Evaluations in Sussex, WI deliver an accurate picture of those swings so the right support can take root. Reaching out takes no referral.
We ground each evaluation in a baseline of cognitive and executive function, then add mood measures and a thorough history of how your patterns have unfolded. One licensed psychologist oversees every stage personally and screens with intention for the conditions that so frequently get confused with bipolar.
For young children, we proceed with caution and patience, since countless things can imitate a mood disorder that early. What we are after is a complete, clear understanding of your child, not a hurried label before the picture has formed.
For teens, telling markers include separate spells of high or irritable mood and surging energy that drop into low, depleted periods. Sleep and activity tend to shift, impulsive behavior increases, and the changes reach well beyond ordinary teenage volatility.
For adults, the signature is mood and energy that rise, expand, or turn irritable before sliding into depression, with sleep and judgment moving too. There is often a long history that no single, tidy explanation ever managed to hold together.
We begin with about an hour of talking through your mood, energy, and behavior, followed from childhood all the way to your present daily life. Surfacing this history is how the cycling that sets bipolar apart from other mood conditions comes to light, and it informs the assessments your psychologist will select.
Next your psychologist puts together a battery of mood and psychological assessments fitted to your experience, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person testing across one to two days. Self report questionnaires go home with you, and a person close to you can complete their own to add perspective over time. Any emerging signs of ADHD, anxiety, or depression are screened alongside.
Everything collected, the testing data, the clinical observations, the questionnaire results, is consolidated into one detailed diagnostic report. Because accurate differential diagnosis is so central with bipolar, your psychologist examines episode history and symptom presentation carefully, and documents any co occurring conditions thoroughly.
Some two to three weeks later, you return for a feedback session that lays the findings out in plain terms. You leave with individualized recommendations, including treatment planning, evidence based therapy options, medication considerations, lifestyle management strategies, and next steps built around your situation.
No, you will not. A referral is never a requirement at Core Spring Diagnostics, and you are welcome to contact us directly, for any reason, at any time.
Expect a detailed clinical interview and history, a cognitive and executive function baseline, targeted mood measures, and thorough screening for the conditions that resemble bipolar, all led by one psychologist.
Yes. We work with both teens and adults, and for younger clients we read mood patterns cautiously, since so many conditions overlap in the early years.
Yes. We work with both teens and adults, and for younger clients we read mood patterns cautiously, since so many conditions overlap in the early years.
Simply phone (414) 387-2100 and we will help you arrange a time and explain the next steps. Nothing has to be prepared in advance, and no referral is required.
You come away with a plain language report and a feedback session that outlines individualized recommendations and a clear path toward the support that fits you.
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