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depressive
Psychol tending to be subject to periods of depression


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However, a 7 1/2-year follow-up of formerly hospitalized manic depressives shows that about 40 percent of those receiving lithium, sometimes combined with other treatments, continue to experience marked emotional highs and lows, as well as serious problems at work and home.
Full-blown manic depressives are less creative than these two groups but show more creativity than control subjects.
While this personality pattern applies to manic depressives in general, those patients who shifted from an excitable to a melancholic state, or vice versa, within the first eight weeks of the study had the worst prospects for recovery.
 
 
 
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