Citation

Möller A, Backmund H. Psychiatr. Prax. 1989; 16(2): 62-65.

Vernacular Title

Zur Suizidalitat des Epilepsiepatienten.

Affiliation

Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, München.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2727190

Abstract

Epileptic and diabetic patients with suicidal tendency are compared in a retrospective study, both types of patients being characterized by chronic disease and social handicaps. Both these groups are predominantly preoccupied with self-intoxication by tranquilisers and/or alcohol, whereas in the group of epileptics examined in this study there is a predominance of "cruel" kinds of self-destruction, i.e. suicide, without any obvious connection with the type of the epileptic attacks. Patients repeatedly attempting suicide are not definitely subject to any higher incidence of attacks compared with the other patients, the frequency of attacks being within a wide range among these relapsing suicides. Epileptic patients who are potential suicides are more often found to have been suffering from an affective disorders for a prolonged period than those of the diabetic group (dysthymic disturbance according to DSM III).

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