Article Text
Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
CASE REPORT
Morbid jealousy reactivated by mood episodes
Summary
A middle-aged man who has been enduring financial constraint experienced a period of irritability, increased goal-directed activities and insomnia occurring along with extreme jealousy with his current wife. The episode was followed by depressed mood and non-prominent auditory hallucination. His previous history revealed a forensic psychiatry case of a murder he committed 20 years ago.
- mood disorders (including depression)
- delusional disorder
- prison medicine
- bipolar I disorder
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Footnotes
Contributors RM managed the patient during his hospitalisation, while NSH manages the patient throughout his out-patient follow-ups.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Obtained.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.