Comorbid dissociative, anxiety and bipolar disorders: a case report

ABSTRACT

Comorbidity between bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders is the rule rather than exception. However, cases involving multiple comorbidity between bipolar, anxiety and dissociative disorders have not been reported. We describe here such a rarely reported case of bipolar-II disorder with comorbid dissociative and panic disorder. The difficulties inherent in the concept, diagnosis and management of a patient with anxiety-bipolar-dissociative comorbidity have been highlighted