Open AccessAnxiety Disorders in Bipolar I Mania: Prevalence, Effect on Illness Severity, and Treatment Implications
Author(s) -
Anindya Das
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.112202
Subject(s) - mania , young mania rating scale , bipolar disorder , comorbidity , psychiatry , anxiety , schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia , hamilton anxiety rating scale , psychology , rating scale , clinical psychology , global assessment of functioning , mood , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , developmental psychology
Comorbidity in bipolar disorder (BP) is common, of which anxiety disorder (AD) comorbidity has received recent attention. The aim of the present study was to find the prevalence of (current and lifetime) ADs in BP I with recent episode mania, its effect on illness severity and its treatment implications. This is unlike the convention of associating "anxiety" with depression. Here, the hierarchical diagnostic criterion of the DSM IV-TR was suspended for heuristic purpose.