Conference paper

AN APPROACH TO TREAT BIPOLAR DISORDERS MIXED STATES

Giuseppe Tavormina ; Psychiatric Studies Center (Cen.Stu.Psi.), Provaglio d'Iseo, Italy

Abstract

Very often clinicians meet great difficulties in making a correct diagnosis of mood disorders which they are assessing, above all
when mixed states are present: this because the patients mainly focus on their own symptoms of depressive uneasiness; mixed
symptoms can insidiously infiltrate into the mood and life of the patients causing a chronic and worsening clinical state. It is
essential not to forget that the depression is only one phase of a broader bipolar mood disorder, and this has to be the illness to be
treated by psychiatrists and, generally, by clinicians managing an appropriate polytherapy with mood-stabilisers and
antidepressants.

Keywords

bipolar disordes; mixed states; treatment of mixed states

Hrčak ID:

264872

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/264872

Publication date:

30.8.2016.

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