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Sullivan asserted that, in some unclear fashion, depression is closely related to manic and hypomanic states. In these states, there is said to be a great outburst of fleeting impulses to integrate situations with others, and a great variety of abbreviated integrations. There is a great volubility, which usually has low communicative value, because there is also great distractability of attention and “flight of ideas.” The manic or hypomanic person manifests a corresponding acceleration of physiological processes and a remarkable increase in bodily movements. “The manic person is preoccupied with nothing; it is as if his attention shifted as frequently as possible, without rhyme or reason excepting the availability of some new distraction” (Sullivan, 1953).
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Mullahy, P., Melinek, M. (1983). The Manic-Depressive Psychosis. In: Interpersonal Psychiatry. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7292-9_8
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