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- Subject: DSM-IIIR Diagnostic Criteria: Major Depression (1987)
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- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:10:32 EDT
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- For diagnosis of "Major Depressive Episode", ALL FOUR criteria below (Roman I,
- II, III, and IV) must be met. "Major Depressive Syndrome" may be diagnosed by
- criterion I (below) alone.
-
- I. At least five (5) of the following symptoms have been present nearly every
- day during the same two-week period and represent a change from previous
- functioning; at least one (1) of the symptoms is either (a) depressed mood; or
- (b) loss of interest or pleasure:
- a. depressed or irritable mood most of the day
- b. markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all,
- activities of the day
- c. significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or
- decrease or increase in appetite ...
- d. insomnia or hypersomnia
- e. psychomotor agitation or retardation
- f. fatigue or loss of energy
- g. feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
- (which may be delusional) and is not merely self-reproach or guilt
- about being sick
- h. diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
- i. recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent
- suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or
- a specific plan for committing suicide
-
- II. a. It cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and
- maintained the disturbance.
-
- [RG's note: This would seem to indicate that depression cannot be diagnosed
- according to DSM-IIIR criteria until other organic causes have been ruled out.]
-
- b. The disturbance is not a normal reaction to the death of a loved one
- (Uncomplicated Bereavement).
-
- III. At no time during the disturbance have there been delusions or
- hallucinations for as long as two weeks in the absence of prominent mood
- symptoms.
-
- IV. Not superimposed on Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional
- Disorder, or Psychotic Disorder.
-
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
-