title: [Excessive daytime sleepiness--as possible suicidal equivalent in people with depressive disorder].
abstract: This paper presents the case of a patient suffering from atypical depression, with excessive daytime sleepiness, which was a suicidal equivalent. Patients who suffer from depression and sleep disorders can have an increased risk of suicidality, and to them should pay increased attention. Field of suicide as a means of resolving conflicts and unconscious mental escape from the reality of the obstacles, including sleep and daytime sleepiness, which may represent a form of "temporary suicide". The authors recommend that hypersomnia, daytime sleepiness in depressed patients and other sleep disorders should be treated as a potential risk factor for suicidal behavior.
authors.affiliation: Opća bolnica Virovitica. elvirakoic@gmail.com
authors.forename: Elvira
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koić
authors.forename: Sladana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Strkalj-Ivezić
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Venus
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: John
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications*; D006970:Disorders of Excessive Somnolence / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*