Extreme positive and negative appraisals of activated states interact to discriminate bipolar disorder from unipolar depression and non-clinical controls

State-Dependent Differences in Emotion Regulation Between Unmedicated Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder

“…BDd sample, in line with previous findings in BD of extremely negative, but also extremely positive, appraisals of internal states, 61 increased rumination in response to negative and positive affect, 62 and increased limbic activity in response to both negative and positive emotional faces.…”

Associations between circadian rhythm instability, appraisal style and mood in bipolar disorder

“…This emphasizes the role of negative cognitions in diagnosed bipolar disorders, corroborating existing evidence (Fletcher et al, 2014;Kelly et al, 2011;Stange et al, 2015). However, inspection of the average ISS scores in line with classifications proposed by Bauer et al (2000), indicates that the bipolar participants may have been borderline depressed when completing the survey.…”

Positive beliefs about mental illness: Associations with sex, age, diagnosis, and clinical outcomes

“…It is possible that PBMI could reflect or inspire ambivalence about addressing mood symptoms (in particular, hypomanic symptoms), given past experiences and the possibility that individuals may find some degree of reward or benefit from their symptoms (e.g., perceived increase in productivity or euphoric feeling), in spite of associated problems. Previous research suggests that individuals with bipolar disorder assign more positive meanings to hypomanic symptoms than others (Alatiq et al, 2010;Jones et al, 2006;Kelly et al, 2011;Mansell and Jones, 2006), and that specific negative beliefs about mood swings predict odds of relapse (Lobban et al, 2013). However, our study is the first to examine the relationship between treatment outcomes and general PBMI (as opposed to beliefs about specific symptoms) across diagnostic categories in a clinical sample characterized by acute symptom severity.…”