Question 2 · LEK · Bipolar disorders
The depressive episode in the course of the bipolar disorder is characterized, more frequently than the one in the course of recurrent depressive disorder, by:
- A. hypersomnia.
- B. first episode occurring at young age.
- C. presence of symptoms of psychosis.
- D. resistance to the treatment with antidepressant medications.
- E. all the above.
Hint
Recall the features that should make you suspect an unrecognised bipolar course in a patient presenting with depression.
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