Phenomenological an a lysis of suicide behavior in patients with bipolar affective disorder

Abstract

The article presents a phenomenological analysis of suicidal behavior in 141 patients with bipolar affective disorder. It was determined that patients with bipolar affective disorder have specific features of suicidal behavior, which included: the presence of moderate and severe suicidal risk; severity of symptoms of hopelessness and helplessness, weak impulsive control, lack of sanity, disorganization, irritability; the presence of stressors; anamnestic burden; violation of communicative relations; the presence of high and pronounced levels of narrowing of cognitive functions; the predominance of a weak desire to live and a strong desire to die; predominance of obsessive and persistent suicidal thoughts and uncertainty about the ability to attempt suicide. The identified features of suicidal behavior in patients with bipolar affective disorder can act as diagnostic criteria and predictors of suicidal behavior in the differential diagnosis and rehabilitation measures to correct suicidal behavior in patients with bipolar affective disorder. Keywords: suicidal risk, suicidal behavior, bipolar affective disorder, depression.