Depression following mania : a retrospective study in Bahrain

الملخص EN

In a retrospective study conducted on 40 inpatients admitted to the Psychiatrie Hospital, Bahrain, for treat" ment of hypomania during the years 1986-1990, we observed that depressive symptoms occurred in 40 % of cases during the first three months after euthymia.

The data analysis included age, sex, past history of mania and depression, family history of psychiatric illness, neuroleptic and lithium therapy.

A past history of depression had a significant as-sociation with the occurrence of depression following mania.