Consists of a single episode or recurrent episodes

-No history of manic or hypomanic episodes

·  Specifiers: melancholic features (lost all interest, not sleeping, eating)

psychotic features (delusions, hallucinations)

atypical features (eat more/sleep less/agitated/depressed)

Seasonal pattern (SAD)-2+ episodes in past 2 years occurring at same time of year

Post-partum onset (following giving birth)

2+ week period with 5+:

Depressed mood, loss of interest in daily activities, unintentional weight loss/gain, insomnia, agitation or retardatioin

depressed mood for most of the day, for more days then not 2+ years with 2+ symptoms:

poor appetite or overeating, insomnia, low energy, low self esteem, feleing of hopelessness

presence of 1 or more manic episodes (necessary)

presence of 1 or more depressive episodes (not n)

presence of 1 or more hypomanic episodes (necessary)

presence of 1 or more major depressive episodes (n)

No history of manic episodes

For 2+ years, presence of number periods with hypomanic symptomsm and depressive symptoms that DO NOT meet criteria for major depressive episode

person hasnt gone w/o symptoms for 2 continuous months

no major depressive episode or manic episode

Exposure to traumatic event involving actual or threatened death.

Lasts longer than a month.

Exposure to traumatic event involving actual or threatened death.

Lasts 2 days-4 weeks after trauma.

Either obsessions or compulsions

Obsessions: recurrent thoughts/impulses that cause anxiety or distress

Compulsions: repetitive behavior person feels driven to perform in response to obsession/rules

Hypocondriasis

Preoccupation with fears of contracting serious diseases by misinterpreting bodily symptoms

Focus on meaning of symptoms, rather than symptoms themselves.

History of complaints before age 30 that occur over several years and result in treatment-seeking

Seeks treatment from multiple doctors constantly

4 pain symptoms, 2 gastrointestinal symptoms (not pain), 1 sexual symptom, 1 pseudoneurological symptom

1+ symptoms affecting voluntary motor (selective paralysis) or sensory function (blindness) that suggest a neurological or general medical condition.

Symptoms not feigned or intentionally produced

Intentionally producing or feigning physical or psychological signs of illness.

It has no tangible incentives.

Individual’s life consumed with pursuit of medical care

Spend inordinate amount of time inflicting injury on oneself to look sick so hospitalization necessary

Person induces physical symptoms in another person who is under their care

Disorder often goes unnoticed because the victim is too frightened to speak out about true cause of symptoms

Refusal to maintain a body weight that is normal for the person’s age and height.

Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.

Eating, in a fixed period of time, an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances.

-A sense of lack of control over eating 

Recurrent episodes of binge eating associated with 3+

-Eating much more rapidly than normal

-Eating to the point of feeling uncomfortably full

-Eating large amounts of food when not hungry

-Eating alone due to embarrassment about how much one is eating

2+ symptoms, present for a significant portion of time during a 1-month period:

Delusions

Hallucinations

Disorganized speech

Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior

Severe impairments in several areas of development or the presence of extremely odd behaviors, interests, and activities.

-Autistic disorder, Aspergers’s disorder, Rett’s disorder, Childhood disintegrative disorder

Impairment in social interaction. Restricted repetitive behavior, interests, and activities. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

No clinically significant general delay in language, cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior, and curiosity about the environment in childhood

Persistent failure to eat adequately w/significant failure to gain weight or significant weight loss.

persistent and maladaptive gambling behavior with 5+:

proccupation w/ gambling, needs to gamble w/ increasing amounts of money, restless or irritable when attempting to cut down, repeated unsuccesful efforts to quit.

development of multiple cognitive deficits manifested by both: memory impairment and 1+ cognitive disturbances:

aphasia (language disturbance), apraxia (impaired ability to carry out motor activities), agnosia (failure to recognize or identify objects)