Anxiety and Mania in Depression - Some Key DSM-5 Changes You Need to Know

If you happened to have been depressed in May, then you went to sleep one evening with DSM-IV depression and woke up with DSM-5 depression. What changed? Absolutely nothing, well sort of absolutely nothing. The DSM, as you may be aware, is psychiatry’s diagnostic bible, issued by the American Psychiatric Association. As opposed to physical illnesses, mental illnesses are defined according to symptoms rather than cause. The...

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Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - June 28, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs