Abstract
Traditionally we diagnose bipolar disorder if a patient has maniac or hypomaniac episode along with depressive episode. Again there is a diagnostic entity called recurrent depressive disorder in the classification system. But we don’t have a diagnostic entity called recurrent mania although in clinical practice many patients present only with episodes of mania and no depressive episode. Thus cases of recurrent mania might have phenomenological differences with rest of the cases of bipolar disorder. Thus, a 30 years old man patient’s atypical case history has been discussed in the context of bipolar disorder and having the possibility of a new subtype of recurrent mania
Highlights
Klerman classified bipolar disorder into six types [1]
Recurrent manic episodes have been reported to be rare, but in clinical practices, it was found that recurrent mania is much more common [3]
Though, considering all the possibilities, the weight is more towards a provisional diagnosis of bipolar disorder
Summary
Anil Kumar1*, Shyamanta Das, Mythili Hazarika, Sangeeta Datta, Simanta Talukdar, Amal Baishya and Dipesh Bhagabati2 1Department of Psychiatry, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College Hospital, Barpeta, Assam, India, 2Department of Psychiatry, Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Assam, India 3NEMCARE Hospital, Assam India
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