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In the section on etiology, Dr. . Kahn notes that "the excesses of any kind can a priori by causing fatigue, upset the balance so precarious cyclothymic. But among the excesses there are two on which we wish to emphasize: the excess
alcohol and sexual excess. "

" Alcoholism as dipsomania, cause he's fit of melancholy or excitement, or is it itself a form cyclothymia? And then there would be a vicious circle: because alcoholic and cyclothymic cyclothymic because an alcoholic. " It is evident that alcoholic saying we only hear about the dipsomaniac, the alcoholic in crisis. "

" The money worries, family quarrels, bring a moral fatigue which, more than physical fatigue, leads to a more severe disorder of mood.

"At one of our patients, who in his time excitation was distinguished by a special malice, wickedness so prevalent among cyclothymic, his entourage could provide access by the slanders spread it over the conduct of his mother. "

" We must, however, whether reputation for originality, instability that is attributed bohemian writers and artists is not a reflection of cyclothymia Constitution? "
" For the public, he sees these individuals as long time and has no chance to see them when they are confined to their homes, he can not suspect the disease state in which they are found for several months, and when he reappears later, arises when the period of excitation, they found as he had once known. He believes when an eccentric character, gay and spiritual and feverish activity, as we observed in a few exceptional individuals, but he can not suspect the existence of such a condition. Such is the degree
the lightest and most often overlooked in the madness circular, compliance with which may be made outside of lunatic asylums. "

" Having fully aware that he feels "next "he can no longer rely to himself, that his feelings are somehow perverted the cyclothymic remains unbalanced, as disoriented (...). It is sad, scared, supporting life as inevitable as a millstone that unknown power was glued to his foot, and he does not even try to get rid "


" Consciousness is intact. The cyclothymic knows he is sick and desperate to heal. It was so conscious of his condition he would himself visit the doctor and ask for a remedy against his moral suffering ".
" It did, "he said (one patient), never completely erased, c ' disease is indefinable which must be eradicated from the beginning. "
" But the excitement as depression are one and the other the flow and ebb of the same imbalance of moral sensitivity. "

Excitement cyclothymic :

"If the letters of manic depression have given us valuable support in the study of their feelings, it is not the same for the cyclothymic in its period of expansion.
This one is no confidence, it does not reflect on itself. "