Seasonal Pattern in Bipolar Disorder May Help Treatment


	Seasonal Pattern in Bipolar Disorder May Help Treatment

dmegivern

10-28-2007 11:01 PM

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10-30-2007 10:54 AM

KimbleKency1683

That was an interesting clip. I've never heard of bipolar symptoms changing in relation to the seasons. Thanks for the info.

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bipolar II, find their symptoms wax and wane with the seasons. Benito Mussolini 
was a prime example. In her biography of the Italian dictator Margarita Sarfati 
wrote: "He was quiet for months on end. But then came the troubled season 
(spring) when the sap rose and he was overcome by a swarm of powerful and dark 
instincts." Psychiatrist Dr Athanasios Koukopoulos, of Centro Lucio Bini, in 
Rome, Italy who has been studying Mussolini says: "This seasonal bipolar pattern 
with spring-summer highs which led him to believe in easy victories, and winter 
depressions masked by stomach pains is clearly documented from 1938 on." (1) 
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