Maybe the highs arrive without warning and the lows settle in just as suddenly, and no single explanation has ever held up. You are not looking to be flattened into a diagnosis; you want a clear read on what is actually happening. Our Bipolar Disorder Evaluations in Oregon, WI give you that clarity, and you never need a referral to begin.
Each assessment opens with a baseline of your cognitive and executive function, the foundation everything else is measured against. From there your psychologist layers in mood measures and a careful, lifelong history, tailoring the work to your specific concern. One licensed psychologist carries it through start to finish, screening throughout for the conditions bipolar patterns are so often mistaken for.
In younger children, mood shifts are read slowly and with real caution, because so many early conditions can look alike. The goal in Oregon is to understand the whole child over time, not to reach for a label before the picture is clear.
Watch for stretches of unusually elevated or irritable mood and energy that swing into low, withdrawn periods, paired with changing sleep, impulsive choices, and shifts that run deeper than ordinary teenage ups and downs.
Adults often describe episodes of expansive, wired, or irritable energy that later collapse into depression, with sleep, judgment, and activity moving alongside them, and a long personal history that never quite fit one tidy story.
We start with an hour of unhurried conversation, where your psychologist traces your mood, energy, and behavior from your earliest years to the present day. Those long view cycling patterns are what separate bipolar disorder from other mood conditions, and they guide which assessments come next.
Your psychologist assembles a battery of mood and psychological measures matched to your experience, typically 2 to 6 hours of in person work spread across one or two days. You take home self report questionnaires, and someone close to you can add their own perspective on how your moods have moved over time. If signs of ADHD, anxiety, or depression surface, those get screened too.
Every piece, test data, clinical observation, and questionnaire, is drawn together into one detailed report. Because getting the differential right matters most here, your psychologist weighs episode history and symptom patterns closely, and documents any co occurring conditions in full.
Roughly two to three weeks later you return for a feedback session that walks through the findings in plain language. You leave with individualized recommendations spanning treatment planning, therapy options, medication questions to bring to your prescriber, and practical day to day strategies.
No. A referral is never required to be seen at Core Spring Diagnostics. You are welcome to reach out on your own, for any reason at all.
A detailed interview and life history, a cognitive and executive baseline, targeted mood measures, and careful screening for look alike conditions, all handled by a single psychologist.
Because bipolar patterns are so readily confused with depression, anxiety, ADHD, and trauma, and the right support hinges on naming the problem correctly. A thorough history is what tells them apart.
We see both teens and adults. With younger clients we move cautiously around mood patterns, since many conditions resemble one another in the early years.
A report written in plain language and a feedback session with individualized recommendations, so you leave with a clear direction toward the support that fits.
Call our Madison office at (608) 396 4830 and we will help you find a time. There is no referral to chase down first; a single conversation gets you started.
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