title: A patient who changed my practice: Personality disorder or bipolar disorder?
abstract: The case of a man originally diagnosed as having a personality disorder is presented. Follow-up over many years revealed that he was really suffering from a bipolar manic-depressive disorder which responded well to lithium. His later life was characterized by stability.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychopharmacology, Institute of Psychiatry, London.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lader
keywords: bipolar disorder; lithium; personality disorder