A Stuttering Case Getting Well During Bipolar Disorder Manic Episode

Bipolar disorder; is a chronic disease with recurrent mania, hypomania and depression episodes. The cyclical progress of the disorder, with recovery and exacerbations, affects the individual physically and mentally and disturbs the patient’s professional and social harmony. Stuttering is defined as the disorder in which the individual's speech is not following his / her age due to fluency or timing. However, the etiology of shuttering has not yet understood. It is thought that, during the conversation, the thought of the negative reactions that the patient might encounter, affects the fluency of the speech. Researches on stuttering in bipolar disorder are limited. In this article, we discussed a case who has stuttering since childhood and whose stuttering got well during bipolar disorder manic episodes. It was observed that the patient's stuttering complaint was resumed when the patient had reached the euthymic state by the treatment