Bipolar Disorder and a History of Suicide Attempts With a Duplication in 5HTR1A
The patient was a 49-year-old woman with bipolar I disorder. She had no history of psychosis or alcohol and drug abuse or dependence, but she did have a history of multiple suicide attempts. She was divorced, was living on disability, and had no history of family or partner violence. In the year prior to enrollment in the study, her illness had a rapid cycling course (70% of days depressed, 90% irritable, 80% anxious, and 10% elevated mood). She entered the study euthymic, but she experienced a major depressive episode that was treated with lamotrigine; she exited the study before recovery. She reported the onset of her illness at age 16, with no history of antidepressant-associated switching from depression to mania. She characterized depressive and manic episodes in her life as “too numerous to count.”
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