CO-MORBIDITY IN BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER: A CASE REPORT

Co-morbidity of bipolar affective disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder in a Bedford community psychiatry team.

This is a study of the prevalence and impact of co-existing bipolar affective disorder on patients with OCD, and the effect on their management within a community psychiatric team. We found that 16% of patients who visited psychiatric outpatients with a diagnosis of OCD had co-existing bipolar affective disorder. Of these the majority had bipolar affective disorder II (67%). Co-morbidity raised...

Dysmorphophobia with Bipolar Affective Disorder : a Case Report

This case report describes the progression of dysmorphophobic symptoms in the dimension of intensity from a normal age related concern, to primary dysmorpliophobia, to a somatic delusion during depressive and manic phases of a bipolar affective disorder. The depressive episodes were resistant to drug treatment but responded to ECTs.

Prolonged mania in a case of bipolar affective disorder.

Bipolar disorder, which often has its onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is characterised by marked variations in mood, ranging from major depressive episodes to manic exacerbations. Compared to depressive episodes, manic recurrences are often brief and usually respond to anti-manic medications within a few weeks. Infrequently bipolar patients get badly affected by protracted manic sympto...

Bipolar affective disorder

A Case of Bipolar Affective Disorder and Aspiration Pneumonia

Adults with mental illness are at a higher risk of aspiration pneumonia than the general population. We describe the case of a patient with bipolar affective disorder and two separate episodes of aspiration pneumonia associated with acute mania. We propose that he had multiple predisposing factors, including hyperverbosity, sedative medications, polydipsia (psychogenic and secondary to a comorb...