“…Patients with affective disorders demonstrate impairment in all the areas of social functioning even when at remission for 2 years [20], but the particular areas of social adjustment do not seem to be equally impaired in UP and BP patients. UP patients are consistently found to be dysfunctional in the areas of social interactions and spare time activities [7,16,17]. On the contrary, for BP patients, the results are not consistent, since in one study, impairment was found in the area of contacts with friends [7], in another, in the areas of spare time, family relations and finance [16], and in the third, no impairment was found compared to controls [17].…”