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From unipolar depression to bipolar illness: 29 who changed
Author(s) -
Winokur G.,
Wesner R.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1987.tb02862.x
Subject(s) - mania , depression (economics) , psychiatry , bipolar illness , bipolar disorder , medicine , psychology , pediatrics , mood , economics , macroeconomics
— We studied 29 patients who were admitted to a psychiatric hospital for depression, never had had a previous mania, and developed the mania in follow‐up. When compared to patients who were stable unipolars, the potential bipolars had a history of more episodes prior to their onset of mania, more hospital admissions, more marked self‐reproach and guilt; in follow‐up, they had more hospitalizations.