Suicidal tendencies in the dynamics of somatized depression
Relevance: high prevalence of depression with mainly somatic clinical manifestations, requiring the development of new approaches to diagnosis and therapy. Objective: to identify the risk of suicidal tendencies in patients with somatized depression in the monopolar and bipolar course of affective disorder. Material and methods: 129 patients with affective spectrum disorders were examined, the clinical picture of which was determined by depressive symptoms in combination with multiple somatic symptoms. Results. Suicidal tendencies are expressed in the clinic of somatized variants of depression, regardless of the type of course (recurrent-depressive or bipolar) affective disease. The probability of suicidal tendencies is higher in the clinic of developed episodes of recurrent and bipolar depression, which have the severity of typical symptoms of "vital" depression