What patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder perceive as adverse life events precipitating a current major depressive episode
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What patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder perceive as adverse life events precipitating a current major depressive episode
Adverse life events (ALEs) as precipitants of a major depressive episode (MDE) have been the subject of many studies.[1-7] Such studies indicate that there tends to be an increase in ALEs in the 6 months preceding an MDE.[1,4,5] In line with the ‘kindling effect’ hypothesis more stressful ALEs are needed for the first MDE, with progressively less stressful ALEs needed for subsequent episodes.[8...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2078-6786,1608-9685
DOI: 10.7196/sajp.661