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- 5 or more symptoms for 2 consecutive weeks nearly every day
Depressed or irritable most of day, nearly every day
Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities
Significant wt loss when not dieting or wt gain >5% in 1 mo. or decrease/increase in appetite
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Psychomotor agitation or retardation (must be noticeable to others)
Fatigue or loss of energy
Feeling of worthlessness or excessive/inappropriate guilt
Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, or specific plan |
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| Dysthymic disorder criteria |
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Depressed or irritable mood for most of the day, for most days for at least 1 year
Two or more of the following:
- Poor appetite or overeating
- Insomnia or hypersomnia
- Low energy or fatigue
- Low self-esteem
- Poor concentration or difficulty making decisions
- Feeling of hopelessness |
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| - feeling of excess worry for 6 months at least |
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- Persistent restriction of energy intake leading to significantly low body weight (in context of what is minimally expected for age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health) .
- Either an intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behaviour that interferes with weight gain (even though significantly low weight).
- Disturbance in the way one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body shape and weight on self-evaluation, or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight. |
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- Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterised by both of the following:
Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2-hour period), 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 during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).
- Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviour in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications, fasting, or excessive exercise.
- The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviours both occur, on average, at least once a week for three months. |
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| criteria for panic disorder, panic attacks must be associated with longer than 1 month of subsequent persistent worry about: (1) having another attack or consequences of the attack, or (2) significant maladaptive behavioral changes related to the attack. To make the diagnosis of panic disorder, panic attacks cannot directly or physiologically result from substance use (intoxication or withdrawal), medical conditions, or another psychiatric disorder. (See History.) Other symptoms or signs may include headache, cold hands, diarrhea, insomnia, fatigue, intrusive thoughts, and ruminations |
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