Hillary's Total Collapse: Hypothyroidism and Psychiatric Illness

Patients with thyroid disturbance and psychiatric symptoms are most often diagnosed with one of the following:
•atypical depression (which may present as dysthymia)
•bipolar spectrum syndrome (including manic-depression, mixed mania, bipolar depression, rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, and premenstrual syndromes)
•borderline personality disorder
•psychotic disorder (typically paranoid psychosis)


Psychiatric symptoms of hypothyroidism can include psychosis, depression, mood instability, mania, anxiety, hypersomnia, apathy, anergia, impaired memory, psychomotor slowing, and attentional problems. Other symptoms (such as hypersomnia and lethargy), as well as laboratory findings such as hypercholesterolemia, galactorrhea, hyperprolactinemia, menstrual irregularities, and sexual dysfunction could be misconstrued as resulting from the psychotropic medications being given to alleviate the psychiatric symptoms


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