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Psychiatric history of a 40-year-old woman with bipolar disorder. The gray box indicates hospital admission, and the white box indicates the length of pharmacological treatment.
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In the past, she had suffered from five severe manic episodes that had always led to hospital admission (Figure 1). In terms of drug treatments, during the first two episodes, she was given haloperidol and benzodiazepines, and on discharge after the second admission, drug treatment was withdrawn as a result of a shared decision-making process (Figure 1).