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Suicide Attempts in Major Depressed Patients with Personality Disorder |
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| Authors: | Mario Amore MD Marco Innamorati PsyD Cristina Di Vittorio MD Igor Weinberg MD Gustavo Turecki MD PhD Leo Sher MD Joel Paris MD PhD Paolo Girardi MD Maurizio Pompili MD PhD |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, Section of Psychiatry, University of Genova, , Genova, Italy;2. Division of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, University of Parma, , Parma, Italy;3. McLean Hospital–Harvard Medical School, , Boston, MA, USA;4. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, , Montreal, QC, Canada;5. James J. Peters VA Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, , New York, NY, USA;6. Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Suicide Prevention Center, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, , Rome, Italy |
| Abstract: | Suicide attempters who met criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) comorbid with major depressive disorder (MDD) were compared to both suicide attempters suffering from MDD alone and to attempters with comorbid MDD and other personality disorders (PD). Participants were 239 (158 patients with comorbid PD and 81 patients with MDD without comorbidity) inpatients consecutively admitted after a suicide attempt made in the last 24 hours. Suicide attempters with comorbid MDD and BPD had more frequent previous suicide attempts and were more likely to have a history of aggressive behaviors and alcohol and drug use disorders compared with patients suffering from MDD without Axis II comorbidity. |
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