Attachment insecurity partially mediates the relationship between childhood trauma and depression severity in bipolar disorder.
Anna L WrobelSamantha E RussellAnuradhi JayasingheMojtaba LotfalianyAlyna TurnerOlivia M DeanSue M CottonClaudia Diaz-ByrdAnastasia K YocumElizabeth R DuvalTobin J EhrlichDavid F MarshallMichael BerkMelvin G McInnisPublished in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2022)
Attachment insecurity in childhood and adulthood form part of the complex mechanism informing why people with bipolar disorder who have a history of childhood trauma experience greater depression severity. Addressing attachment insecurity represents a valuable psychotherapeutic treatment target for bipolar disorder.