This is the fourth installment to our discussion on sex and bipolar. The conventional wisdom is that (hypo)mania increases our sexual drive - often to the point of excess - while depression has the opposite effect. Indeed, Goodwin and Jamison in their 2007 “Manic-Depressive Illness” note that Aretaeus of Cappadocia in the second century AD observed “a period of lewdness and shamelessness exists in the highest type of [manic] delirium.”
The authors cite a number of studies showing...
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