ArticleFocus (American Psychiatric Publishing)2020
The Care of Patients With Complex Mood Disorders.
Article in Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Exploring psychotherapists' experiences in delivering effective treatment for major depression in Saudi Arabia: a qualitative study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From Stress to Synapse: The Neuronal Atrophy Pathway to Mood Dysregulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Weaving rapport: doctors' strategies towards patients' noncompliance.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Bipolar depression: a review of treatment options.General psychiatry · 2022Review
- Fluoxetine and environmental enrichment similarly reverse chronic social stress-related depression- and anxiety-like behavior, but have differential effects on amygdala gene expression.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
- NNDC Special Issue: Challenges of Mood Disorders Care.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2020Article
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Abstract
This article focuses on some common dilemmas facing clinicians, patients, and families in managing the treatment of complicated mood disorders. Specifically, this article reviews the interaction of depressive states, including unipolar, bipolar, and mixed, with other adversities, including comorbid physical and psychological disorders, personality vulnerabilities, misuse of drugs and alcohol, and social and family problems. These issues are not always clearly differentiated from the depressive illness. Each of these adversities can worsen an existing mood disorder and influence the patient's resolve to persist with a treatment plan. Although this article is not focused strictly on treatment-resistant depression, these coexisting issues make depressive states harder to manage therapeutically. For brevity, the aim of this article has been limited to discussion of some complex situations that psychiatrists in general practice may encounter.
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