episodes alternating with depressive mood episodes, mixed episodes, and euthymic mood episodes (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In the Netherlands, the disease has a lifetime prevalence of 1.3 % (de Graaf, ten Have, van Gool, & van Dorsselaer, 2012). In a significant percentage of such cases, the BD poses a huge social and occupational burden for both the patient and the family (Abood et al., 2002 and Simon, 2003).