Bipolar Depression

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Bipolar Depression

• About 90 of people who experience a manic
  episode will also experience a depressive
  episode1
• Depression may be the first affective episode in
  more than 50 of patients with bipolar disorder2
• Frequently long-lasting, severe, and disabling
• Mean duration of bipolar depressive episodes is
  longer than manic episodes3
• More than 20 of bipolar depressive episodes run
  a chronic course3

1. Goodwin FK, Jamison KR. Manic-Depressive
Illness. Oxford University Press New York, NY
1990. 2.
Roy-Byrne P et al. Acta Psychiatr Scand.
1985317(suppl)1-34. 3. Keller MB et al. JAMA.
19862553138-3142.