Duration Criteria and the DSM: Much Ado About Nothing?

If your mania lasts only six days instead of seven, is your condition normal? What about hypomania? Should three days be regarded as normal? A strict reading of the DSM-IV (psychiatry’s diagnostic bible) would be yes to both. But does this make sense?   Nearly two years ago, I attended the Ninth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, put on by the Western Psychiatric Institute and the University of Pittsburgh. A panel from...
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