It is well known th at hypothyroidism usually presents w ith depressive symptomatology and th y roid function screening has been an established practice to rule out depression secondary to hypothyroidism. Authors presented a 32 year old hypothyroid woman who showed various mental symptoms and was given psychiatric diagnoses. She showed schizophrenic symptoms on the first attack, depressive symptoms on the second, organic brain syndrome mixed with schizophrenic symptoms on the third, and on the last one, depression and anxiety. Literature review revealed there wre few, if any, th at a patient w ith hypothyroidism showed different kind of m ental symptoms on each different attack. Recently there have been many researches to study the relation between thyroid dysfunction and affective disorders. However, further studies focusing on the relation between hypothyroidism and mental symptoms other than depression would be important for diagnostic and therapeutic implica-tion.
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