This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour .

Oral presentation

Suicidal intentionality, attempts and cyclothymic temperament

Jawaher Masmoudi¹ and Elie Hantouche²

¹  Department of Psychiatry “A”, CHU Hedi Chaker, Sfax, Tunis, Tunisia

²  Anxiety and Mood Center, 117, rue de Rennes, 75006 Paris, France

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S1doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S1

Published:	17 April 2008

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Depression is a frequent pathology that especially exposes to the suicidal risk. Lately, researches demonstrated that bipolar depression in the setting of a major bipolar disorder is more purveyor of such a risk. A depressive episode that appears in a cyclothymic temperament is considered as a bipolar II ½. In this form of soft bipolarity, suicidal risk appeared much higher than in classical bipolar-II disorder (Akiskal et al, 2003, data from Epidep study). Also in cyclothymic OCD, the suicide risk is doubled when compared to OCD without cyclothymia (Hantouche et al, 2003, from the national ABC-OCD French study). Other recent reports suggested that significant link exist between cyclothymia and suicidality (Rihmer et al, 2005). In order to elaborate more on this observation a Tunisian controlled study had been conducted in the Sfax University A sample of 51 suicidal attempters was compared with 51 healthy controls. The average age was of 23,1 years ( ± 6 years); 66% were female, and 72% were unmarried.