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DSM-V: modifying the postpartum-onset specifier to include hypomania
✍ Scribed by Verinder Sharma; Vivien K. Burt
- Book ID
- 106223618
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 84 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-1816
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✦ Synopsis
By failing to include it under the rubric of the postpartum-onset specifier, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV-TR has ignored the clinical reality that childbirth is a potent trigger of hypomania. Given the serious and occasionally tragic consequences of misdiagnosis of bipolar II depression as unipolar depression in the postpartum period, it is argued that DSM-V should consider modifying the postpartum-onset specifier to include episodes of hypomania.