It's a curious title, but this is the exact phrasing used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; an agreed set of guidelines for diagnosis, for one of the three forms of unipolar depression. Within the DSM manual, unipolar depression is categorized as a major depressive episode, dysthymic disorder or "depression not otherwise specified." So, in this post I'd like to reveal just what's beneath this intriguing category.
The presence of depressive features can occur in a...
A study published a few weeks ago in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests that approximately one in four people who are diagnosed... Read more »
Soon after I created my website Wing of Madness in 1995, I wrote an article about women and depression. At that time it was believed that... Read more »
In an earlier series of blogs, I described how I wound up having dinner with Robert Spitzer MD, the man responsible for the ground-breaking... Read more »
On Wednesday, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 Task Force released the draft to the new DSM, available for viewing and... Read more »
Yesterday, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-V Task Force released a rough draft of the next edition of the DSM - the diagnostic... Read more »
According to psychiatrist Allen Frances, diagnosing patients with either as either bipolar or as suffering from a unipolar depression with mood... Read more »
The classic symptoms of depression include sadness during most of the day, altered appetite or body weight, change in sleep patterns, agitation, lack... Read more »
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