Sections
Introduction | Mood Episodes | Depressive Disorders | Bipolar Disorders | Other Mood Disorders | Specifiers Describing Current or Most
Recent Episode | Specifiers Describing Course of Recurrent Episodes
Excerpt
The Mood Disorders section includes disorders that have a
disturbance in mood as the predominant feature. The section is divided
into three parts. The first part describes mood episodes (Major
Depressive Episode, Manic Episode, Mixed Episode, and Hypomanic
Episode) that have been included separately at the beginning of
this section for convenience in diagnosing the various Mood Disorders.
These episodes do not have their own diagnostic codes and cannot
be diagnosed as separate entities; however, they serve as the building
blocks for the disorder diagnoses. The second part describes the
Mood Disorders (e.g., Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder,
Bipolar I Disorder). The criteria sets for most of the Mood Disorders
require the presence or absence of the mood episodes described in
the first part of the section. The third part includes the specifiers
that describe either the most recent mood episode or the course
of recurrent episodes.