One year affective symptom status rating with BP-II for 40 patients were based on interviews conducted at one month interval in prospective follow up. The clinical pictures, the number of shifts and the polarity were examined.

In these 1 years follow up the patients with BP-II were szmptomatic 56.1 % of months: depressive 61.2 % of months, manic 9.5 % of months and mixed 6.3 %. Subsyndromal (minor) depressive states and hzpomanic syndromes were evaluated in 33 % of months.

According to this results, our older results and many other clinical observations in literature, it is obligatory to introduce the new clinical/nosological category in current clinical praxis and in new classifications with name TRIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDERS.