Religiousness and spirituality in patients with bipolar disorder

Fazio, Pasquale De; Gaetano, Raffaele; Caroleo, Mariarita; Cerminara, Gregorio; Giannini, Francesca; Jaén-Moreno, María José; Díaz, María José Moreno; León, Antonio Medina; Segura-Garcìa, Cristina

doi:10.3109/13651501.2014.1000929

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“…Both religious authority figures (e.g., rabbis) and religious beliefs and practices were noted by our interviewees. It would appear that the specifics of one religion or another are not particularly important here; although our respondents were all of the Jewish faith, similar results have been found among PWBD in Brazil (Stroppa & Moreira‐Almeida, ), Turkey (Çuhadar, Savaş, Ünal, & Gökpınar, ), and other countries (De Fazio et al, ). In fact, religion and spirituality has been found to be modestly positively correlated with mental health even in cancer patients (Salsman et al, ).…”

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confidence: 73%

Hold on Tight: Coping Strategies of Persons With Bipolar Disorder and Their Partners

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Objective To explore coping strategies for persons with bipolar affective disorder and their partners. Background Bipolar disorder poses interpersonal and practical challenges for patients and their partners. Although the divorce rate is high among persons with bipolar disorder, few studies have examined how these people and their partners cope with the condition. Method 11 persons with bipolar affective disorder and 10 partners of people with bipolar affective disorder were interviewed separately about coping. Data were analyzed using the grounded theory method. Results Both patients and partners reported that coping strategies included professional help, social support, and emotional, instrumental, and religious coping strategies. Conclusions Persons with bipolar disorder and their partners draw on similar coping strategies, but the former draw more on social support and instrumental coping strategies, and their partners draw on emotional coping strategies. Both members of the couple are dependent on the use of professional support—psychiatric, psychological, and psychosocial—when it is readily available and easily accessible, and this was a key aspect of coping with the disorder. Implications Clinical interventions should focus on providing support for partners, who are integral to the health and well‐being of persons with bipolar disorder and who experience substantial strain associated with their caregiving duties. Focusing on strategies to strengthen the spousal relationship is an essential aspect of care.

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Hold on Tight: Coping Strategies of Persons With Bipolar Disorder and Their Partners

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“…Many mechanisms have been proposed to account for these relationships, with those most commonly mentioned including health behaviors, social support, coping, a sense of meaning in life, hope, positive affect, compassion, and locus of control (Park, 2007). However, the relationship between religiosity and BD continues to be under-investigated, and the hypothesis that religiosity can be relevant both in terms of providing a protective effect and as a provocative element in SB, depressive or manic/ hypomanic phases in BD has not been fully supported (De Fazio et al, 2015). Moreover, some studies on BD have included nonhomogeneous patient samples, such as BD type I and II, and have used various methodologies, making it difficult to compare the results (Bonelli and Koenig, 2013;De Fazio et al, 2015).…”

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“…However, the relationship between religiosity and BD continues to be under-investigated, and the hypothesis that religiosity can be relevant both in terms of providing a protective effect and as a provocative element in SB, depressive or manic/ hypomanic phases in BD has not been fully supported (De Fazio et al, 2015). Moreover, some studies on BD have included nonhomogeneous patient samples, such as BD type I and II, and have used various methodologies, making it difficult to compare the results (Bonelli and Koenig, 2013;De Fazio et al, 2015). Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate whether there is an association between religiosity and SB in bipolar I outpatients evaluated only in a euthymic state.…”

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Is religiosity a protective factor against suicidal behavior in bipolar I outpatients?

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et al. 2015

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…Sweet delight and endless night: a qualitative exploration of ordinary and extraordinary religious and spiritual experiences in bipolar disorder. International Journal of the Pyschology of Religion: 2018, 28(1), 31-54 2016 De Fazio, P., Gaetano, R., Caroleo, M., Cerminara, G., Giannini, F., Jaén Moreno, M., … Segura-García, C. (2016). Religiousness and spirituality in patients with bipolar disorder.…”

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Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

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Muthert

Zock

et al. 2017

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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The authenticity of religious and spiritual experiences during mania is an important subject for bipolar patients. The exploration of such experience in bipolar disorder is the central point of this qualitative study. A psychiatrist and a hospital chaplain conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with recovered participants, recruited from mental health care institutions in the Netherlands, the patients' association and via the internet, about their religious and spiritual experiences during illness episodes and in stable times. A variety in types (such as divine presence, unity, mission, meaningful synchronicity) during mania was reported, which were on a sliding scale with experiences/views in stable times in more than half of the interviews. During depression, absence of religious or spiritual experience was predominant. The reported experiences were viewed by most participants as both authentically religious or spiritual but also related to the disorder, requiring therefore language that transcended medical terminology. Also indicated is the relevance of the results for fundamental discussions about the nature or religious experience.

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Religiousness and spirituality in patients with bipolar disorder

Abstract: R/S play a role as a psychosocial variable in the course of BD. However, the hypothesis that the R/S factor can be relevant both in terms of providing a protective effect as well as a provocative element in depressive or hypomanic phases was not fully supported at the moment.

Cited by 15 publications

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Hold on Tight: Coping Strategies of Persons With Bipolar Disorder and Their Partners

Hold on Tight: Coping Strategies of Persons With Bipolar Disorder and Their Partners

Is religiosity a protective factor against suicidal behavior in bipolar I outpatients?

Sweet Delight and Endless Night: A Qualitative Exploration of Ordinary and Extraordinary Religious and Spiritual Experiences in Bipolar Disorder

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