Citation

Montgomery SA, Montgomery D, Baldwin D, Green M. Neuropsychobiology 1989; 22(3): 128-134.

Affiliation

St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Karger Publishers)

DOI

118606

PMID

2485860

Abstract

Intermittent short-lived episodes of depression were examined in a group of 20 recurrent suicidal attempters without major depression, classified misleadingly as borderline personality disorders on DSM-IIIR, during careful prospective follow-up for between 4 and 6 months. The duration of depressions clustered tightly around a median of 3 days with two thirds lasting between 2 and 4 days. They occurred erratically and unpredictably with a median interval of 18 days and were seen to be moderate to severe measured on the MADRS in 70% of episodes.

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