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Second, general rates of comorbid and additional diagnoses in the total group of patients were estimated and compared with literature on MDD. Method: A blind record evaluation was performed on 100 suicide victims with severe depression\/melancholia (MDD with melancholic and\/or psychotic features: MDD-M\/P) and matched controls admitted to the Department of Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden between 1956 and 1969 and monitored to 2010. Diagnoses in addition to severe depression were noted. Results: Less than half of both the suicides and controls had just one psychiatric disorder (47% in the suicide and 46% in the control group). The average number of diagnoses was 1.80 and 1.82, respectively. Additional diagnoses were not related to an increased suicide risk. Anxiety was the most common diagnosis. Occurrence of suspected schizophrenia\/schizotypal or additional obsessive-compulsive symptoms were more common than expected, but alcohol use disorders did not appear very frequent. Conclusions: The known increased risk of suicide in MDD with comorbid\/additional diagnoses does not seem to apply to persons with MDD-M\/P (major depressive disorder-depression\/Melancholia). Some diagnoses, such as schizophrenia\/schizotypal disorders, were more frequent than expected, which is discussed, and a genetic overlap with MDD-M\/P is proposed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph15071299","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,22]],"date-time":"2018-06-22T02:46:21Z","timestamp":1529635581000},"page":"1299","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Aspects of Additional Psychiatric Disorders in Severe Depression\/Melancholia: A Comparison between Suicides and Controls and General Pattern"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Ulrika","family":"Heu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Sciences Helsingborg, SE 251 87 Helsingborg, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1146-9547","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mats","family":"Bogren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Division of Psychiatry; Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital, Barav\u00e4gen 1, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"August G.","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Suicide Prevention, University Hospital Amager, Digevej 110, DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Louise","family":"Br\u00e5dvik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Division of Psychiatry; Sk\u00e5ne University Hospital, Barav\u00e4gen 1, SE-221 85 Lund, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1925","DOI":"10.1176\/appi.ajp.157.12.1925","article-title":"Affective disorders and suicide risk: A reexamination","volume":"157","author":"Bostwick","year":"2000","journal-title":"Am. 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