Abstract

We described a 4-month long hypomanic response to sleep deprivation in a patient with consistent (20-day cycles) rapid cycling. He subsequently reverted to very rapid cycling; however, sleep deprivation remained effective for each attack of depression. Sleep deprivation treatment, its immediate but short-lived beneficial effect, may have a role in the treatment of the ultra-short depressions encountered in very rapid cycling.

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