Open AccessThe Mood Spectrum and Temperamental Instability in Unipolar and Bipolar Disorder
Author(s) -
Manish Kumar,
Pradeep Kumar Saha,
Anwesha Mondal
Publication year - 2017
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 - 10.4103/0253-7176.207343
Subject(s) - psychology , bipolar disorder , mood , temperament , mania , spectrum disorder , borderline personality disorder , mood disorders , clinical psychology , major depressive disorder , personality , depression (economics) , psychiatry , anxiety , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
The current categorical split of mood disorders in bipolar (BP) disorders and depressive disorders has recently been questioned. The presence of a significant number of manic/hypomanic symptoms in patients with recurrent unipolar depression seems to challenge the traditional dichotomy of unipolar-BP disorder. Two highly unstable personality features, i.e., the cyclothymic temperament (CT) and borderline personality disorder, have been found to be more common in BP disorder than in major depressive disorder.