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Mania: case report A 38-year-old woman developed mania during treatment with hypericum for depressed mood. The woman presented with symptoms such as self-laughing, restlessness, mobility, doing too much work, increasing religious habits, reading a lot of books, making lots of shopping, scepticism, vulnerability, irritability, insomnia, rapid speech, increased sociability and sexual interest, and cheerfulness. hence, she was hospitalized for close follow-up and treatment. She reported that she had taken hypericum [St. John's wort; dose not stated] every night during the last month for depressed mood, in the form of herbal tea. During psychiatric examination, increased self-care, showing age, mood was irritable, affective lability, amount of speech and speed increased, associations scattered, activity increase towards purpose, sleep-appetite deteriorated, no perceptual pathology was noted, psychomotor activity increased, flow of thought accelerated, grandiose and mistic deliriums were also seen. Eventually, she was diagnosed with mania. Hence, the woman started receiving olanzapine and she was suggested not to use hypericum [outcome not stated].

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Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)