To the Editor: Suicide is the leading cause of death in young adults, and the lifetime risk of suicide for people with bipolar disorder is 15%. A meta-analysis of 15 studies1 determined prevalence rates of attempted suicide as high as 36.3% in bipolar I disorder and 32.4% in bipolar II disorder. A recent review2 on suicide in bipolar disorder emphasized the need for further research into how su...

OBJECTIVE Comorbid anxiety disorder is reported to increase suicidality in bipolar disorder. However, studies of the impact of anxiety disorders on suicidal behavior in mood disorders have shown mixed results. The presence of personality disorders, often comorbid with anxiety and bipolar disorders, may explain these inconsistencies. This study examined the impact of comorbid Cluster B personali...

BACKGROUND Investigating the factors related to suicide is crucial for suicide prevention. Psychiatric disorders, gender, socioeconomic status, and catastrophic illnesses are associated with increased risk of suicide. Most studies have typically focused on the separate influences of physiological or psychological factors on suicide-related behaviors, and have rarely used national data records t...

Background: Bipolar patients have a higher risk of suicide when compared with the general population and other psychiatric disorders. The aim of this article is to review the social-demographic, clinical and neuroanatomical aspects of suicidal behavior in bipolar patients. Methods: A non-systematic review of literature through PsycoInfo, Lilacs, Medline and PubMed eletronic databases was conduc...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence of an association of a number of subjective and objective sleep parameters (especially nightmares) and elevated suicidal risk in different clinical populations as well as in the general populations. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional naturalistic study of 52 inpatients (28 females and 24 males, aged from 24 to 75 years) meeting criteria for a c...

Patient with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have an increased prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components compared to general population. Among psychiatric disorders, bipolar disorder ranks highest in suicidality with a relative risk ratio of completed suicide of about 25 compared to the general population. Regarding the biological hypotheses of suici...

BACKGROUND Suicide is a serious public health problem. In the international literature there is evidence to support the notion that certain temperaments and personality traits are often associated with suicidal behavior. SAMPLING AND METHODS In this study, 150 psychiatric inpatients were investigated using the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego autoquestionnaire, the...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder is a chronic mood disorder associated with a high risk for suicide attempts, which carry personal, societal, and economical consequences. No information is available on the economic costs associated with suicide attempts among patients with bipolar disorder or the change in economic costs from before to following the suicide attempt. AIMS OF THE STUDY The primary o...

introduction: bipolar affective disorder is cyclic swinging of mood between mania or hypo-mania and depression. lifetime prevalence of bipolar disorder is 2.4%. a numbers of risk factors are associated with bipolar disorders including age, sex, and genetic predisposition, environmental factors and socioeconomic status. the main objective of the conducted study was to assess vulnerability for bi...