@article{ref1,
title="Self-harm, affective traits, and psychosocial functioning in adults with depressive and bipolar disorders",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2017",
author="Weintraub, Marc J. and Van de Loo, Margaret M. and Gitlin, Michael J. and Miklowitz, David J.",
volume="205",
number="11",
pages="896-899",
abstract="Self-harm refers to the purposeful destruction of bodily tissue without suicidal intention and for purposes that are not socially sanctioned. Little is known about the associations between a history of self-harm, mood symptoms, and functioning in adults with different types of mood disorders. Lifetime histories of self-harm, current mood symptoms, global functioning, and affective traits were collected on 142 adults with mood disorders. The prevalence of lifetime self-harm was higher in patients with bipolar disorder compared with patients with a unipolar depressive disorder. Self-harm was also more strongly linked to impulsivity in individuals with bipolar disorder compared with unipolar depressive disorder. Across both diagnoses, histories of self-harm were related to lower levels of current global functioning, more severe depressive symptoms, and high self-reported emotional dysregulation and neuroticism. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate that self-harm is a potent prognostic variable for symptoms, global functioning, and personality functioning in individuals with mood disorders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="10.1097/NMD.0000000000000744",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000744"
}