Conclusions: The presence of psychotic symptoms in bipolar manic episodes were associated to male gender and younger age but not to indirect measures of illness severity.Andrade, F.Machado, A. S.Vieira, A.Silva, A.European Psychiatry
i am 21 yrs old and i was recently diagnosed with bipolar NOS with psychotic features. my family doesnt quite understand that when im in a manic period i suffer from dissassociation and that i have no idea that the things i am doing are not "reality" i suffer from black outs and memor...
Patients diagnosed with axis I: F31.2 bipolar affective disorder, manic episode with psychotic symptoms; axis II: not found yet; axis III: vulnus laceratum in the right maxillary region; axis IV: primary support group problems; axis V: GAF20-11. Pharmacotherapy with haloperidol 3x2 mg tab, ...
Bipolar I disorder (BD I), which was previously known as manic depression, is characterized by a single or recurrent manic episode. A person with bipolar disorder often experiences mood states that vacillate between depression and mania; that is, the person’s mood is said to alternate from ...
Manic-Depressive illness: bipolar disorders and recurrent depression. 2nd ed. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press; 2007. McMahon FJ, Stine OC, Chase GA, Meyers DA, Simpson SG, DePaulo JRJ. Influence of clinical subtype, sex, and lineality on age at onset of major affective disorder ...
hindering comorbidity measurement. There is a well-established clinical pattern of seizure episodes heralding the onset of manic, psychotic, or depressive episodes (Mazza et al., 2007;Nishida et al., 2006). Some researchers have suggested 100% comorbidity between bipolar mania and epilepsy, hypothe...
In case of significant effects in the contrast BD-II > BD-I in the main analyses (step 1), we repeated the group comparisons by separately including clinical variables (e.g. number of depressive and (hypo-)manic episodes, psychiatric hospitalization, psychopharmacological medication and PRS...
people with this disorder experience, in that they endure years of depressive and manic symptoms, the consequences of their actions during those disease states, as well as potentially longing for the increased energy and sense of well-being of mania that may be quelled by psychiatric medications....
What It Is:Doctors useelectroconvulsive therapy(ECT), also known as electroshock therapy, to treat hospitalized people who are severely depressed or manic, suicidal, psychotic, or persistently agitated and unable to take basic care of themselves. It works for nearly 75% of people. ...
i am not a doctor - but a patient. this app has been ground breaking for me. being a person with bipolar 1 disorder, keeping a mental log of what i’ve been experiencing has proved impossible - mainly due to psychotic features. emoods has presets for main symptoms of bipolar disorder ...