Scribd
Upload
18 views1 page

Article: 2670: Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder and History of Suicide Attempts

A study examined the risk of suicide attempts in patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. The study found that patients diagnosed with both disorders had significantly higher rates of prior suicide attempts and multiple attempts compared to patients with bipolar disorder alone. Those with both disorders also had higher, but not statistically significant, rates of suicide attempts than those with borderline personality disorder alone. The co-occurrence of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder appears to confer an added risk for suicidal behavior.

Uploaded by

Danielle Dani
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
18 views1 page

Article: 2670: Comorbid Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder and History of Suicide Attempts

A study examined the risk of suicide attempts in patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. The study found that patients diagnosed with both disorders had significantly higher rates of prior suicide attempts and multiple attempts compared to patients with bipolar disorder alone. Those with both disorders also had higher, but not statistically significant, rates of suicide attempts than those with borderline personality disorder alone. The co-occurrence of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder appears to confer an added risk for suicidal behavior.

Uploaded by

Danielle Dani
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

Article: 2670

Topic: 40 - Bipolar Disorders


COMORBID BIPOLAR DISORDER AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND HISTORY
OF SUICIDE ATTEMPTS
M. Zimmerman
Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA

Background: Both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are associated with elevated rates of completed and
attempted suicide. No studies have examined whether there is an additive risk for suicidal behavior in patients diagnosed with
both disorders. In the present report from the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS)
project we tested the hypothesis that patients diagnosed with both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder would
have a higher rate of suicide attempts than patients with either diagnosis alone.
Methods: Three thousand four hundred and sixty-five psychiatric outpatients were interviewed with semi-structured interviews.
Results: The suicide attempt rate in both the bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder groups was significantly
higher than the rate in patients without either of these disorders. Compared to the bipolar patients without borderline
personality disorder, the patients diagnosed with both bipolar and borderline personality disorder were significantly more likely
to have made a prior suicide attempt (58.0% vs. 28.9%, p< .001) and to have made multiple suicide attempts (33.3% vs.
16.5%, p< .01). The patients with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder were nonsignificantly more likely than the
borderline patients without bipolar disorder to have made a prior suicide attempt (58.0% vs. 46.7%, p=n.s.) and to have made
multiple suicide attempts (33.3% vs. 24.2%, p=n.s.)
Conclusions: While bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder are each risk factors for suicidal behavior, the cooccurrence of these disorders confers an additive risk.

You might also like