Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Abstract

Recurrent Mania: Rare or Common

Anil Kumar, Shyamanta Das, Mythili Hazarika, Sangeeta Datta, Simanta Talukdar, Amal Baishya, Dipesh Bhagabati

Traditionally we diagnose bipolar disorder if a patient has maniac or hypomaniac episode along with depressive episode. Again there is a diagnostic entity called recurrent depressive disorder in the classification system. But we don’t have a diagnostic entity called recurrent mania although in clinical practice many patients present only with episodes of mania and no depressive episode. Thus cases of recurrent mania might have phenomenological differences with rest of the cases of bipolar disorder. Thus, a 30 years old man patient’s atypical case history has been discussed in the context of bipolar disorder and having the possibility of a new subtype of recurrent mania