title: [Suicidal tendency of epilepsy patients].
abstract: Epileptic and diabetic patients with suicidal tendency are compared in a retrospective study, both types of patients being characterized by chronic disease and social handicaps. Both these groups are predominantly preoccupied with self-intoxication by tranquilisers and/or alcohol, whereas in the group of epileptics examined in this study there is a predominance of "cruel" kinds of self-destruction, i.e. suicide, without any obvious connection with the type of the epileptic attacks. Patients repeatedly attempting suicide are not definitely subject to any higher incidence of attacks compared with the other patients, the frequency of attacks being within a wide range among these relapsing suicides. Epileptic patients who are potential suicides are more often found to have been suffering from an affective disorders for a prolonged period than those of the diabetic group (dysthymic disturbance according to DSM III).
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, München.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Backmund
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000523:psychology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Zur Suizidalität des Epilepsiepatienten.