Psychosocial Factors Associated With Recovery In Bipolar Disorder

Nonadherence Effective Factors in Bipolar Disorder With Previous Rehospitalization

Objective: Bipolar disorder is a severe mental disorder, and its prevalence is around 1% to 2%. Despite a vast literature around bipolar disorder, the reasons of its nonadherence and rehospitalization is still obscure. Several symptoms of bipolar disorder include changes in activity level, cognitive abilities, speech, and vegetative functions, such as sleep, sexual activity, as well as aggressi...

Psychosocial Treatments in Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a common and often disabling major mental illness. It accounts for a high proportion of idiopathic psychotic illnesses, and, together with psychotic disorders, the combined lifetime prevalence may exceed 3% of the general population. Their treatment has been revolutionized by modern pharmacotherapies in the past half-century (Baldessarini and Tarazi, in press). However, thes...

Psychosocial morbidity associated with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder in psychiatric out-patients: comparative study.

BACKGROUND The morbidity associated with bipolar disorder is, in part, responsible for repeated calls for improved detection and recognition. No such commentary exists for the improved detection of borderline personality disorder. Clinical experience suggests that it is as disabling as bipolar disorder, but no study has directly compared the two disorders. AIMS To compare the levels of psycho...

Psychosocial Interventions for Bipolar Disorder

Lifetime eating disorder comorbidity associated with delayed depressive recovery in bipolar disorder

BACKGROUND Although eating disorders (EDs) are common in bipolar disorder (BD), little is known regarding their longitudinal consequences. We assessed prevalence, clinical correlates, and longitudinal depressive severity in BD patients with vs. without EDs. METHODS Outpatients referred to Stanford University BD Clinic during 2000-2011 were assessed with the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Pr...