How might a patient with bipolar affective disorder (manic-depressive illness) be a threat to others?

Updated: May 06, 2018
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Patients with bipolar disorder can also become a threat to others. For example, a patient experiencing a severe depression believed the world was so bleak that she planned to kill her children to spare them from the world’s misery.

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