Abstract
In a retrospective chart review of 424 patients treated at the UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic, 37.8% of atients with an unequivocal psychiatric xiagnosis were diagnosed with an Axis I affective disorder (AD), and the these, 45% were also diagnosed with an Axis II ersonality disorder (AD + PD). Comparetf with 82 patients diagnosed with AD and no Axis II diagnosis (AD Alone), AD + PD patients were initially more impaired and received more medications-secifically antipsychotics and benzodiazepines. AD + PD patients improved at least as much as did AD Alone patients; Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients showed the most impairment prior to treatment as well as the most improvement with treatment.