An approach to treat bipolar disorders mixed states.
Very often clinicians meet great difficulties in making a correct diagnosis of mood disorders which they are assessing, above all when mixed states are present: this because the patients mainly focus on their own symptoms of depressive uneasiness; mixed symptoms can insidiously infiltrate into the mood and life of the patients causing a chronic and worsening clinical state. It is essential not to forget that the depression is only one phase of a broader bipolar mood disorder, and this has to be the illness to be treated by psychiatrists and, generally, by clinicians managing an appropriate polytherapy with mood-stabilisers and antidepressants.
Psychiatric Studies Center (Cen.Stu.Psi. - www.censtupsi.org), Piazza Portici, 11, 25050 Provaglio d'Iseo (BS), Italy, dr.tavormina.g@libero.it.
Giuseppe
G
Tavormina