Comorbid bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder: state of the art in pediatric patients

To the editor:Apparent comorbidity between bipolar disorder（BD）and anxiety disorders is a common condition in psychiatry,[1,2]one of the most difficult to manage being the co-occurrence of BD and obsessive-compulsive disorder（OCD）.[3,4]In 1860 French psychiatrist BénédictAugustin Morel first described patients with symptoms typical of what is now considered comorbid BD and OCD.[5]A century later,when categorizing

To the editor：Apparent comorbidity between bipolar disorder（BD）and anxiety disorders is a common condition in psychiatry, one of the most difficult to manage being the co-occurrence of BD and obsessive-compulsive disorder（OCD）.In 1860 French psychiatrist BénédictAugustin Morel first described patients with symptoms typical of what is now considered comorbid BD and OCD.