{"id":2438,"date":"2011-01-12T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psymd\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:08:27","slug":"psymd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/psymd\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In major depression, the person\u2019s mood is described as depressed, sad, hopeless, discouraged, or \u201cdown in the dumps\u201d.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depression (American Psychiatric Association)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Period of at least 2 wk during which five or more symptoms have been present (at least one of the symptoms is either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities).<\/li>\n<li>Changes in appetite or decrease or increase in weight, insomnia or hypersomnia, and psychomotor agitation or retardation; decreased energy; feelings of worthlessness or guilt; difficulty in thinking, concentrating, or making decisions; recurrent thoughts of death or suicidal ideation, plans, or attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms are either new or worse than before the depressive episode, and they persist for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least 2 consecutive wk.<\/li>\n<li>Episode accompanied by clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms are not due to bereavement or to direct physiological effect of medication, general medical condition, or substance abuse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th ed. rev.: DSM-IV-R. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000.<\/li>\n<li>Frye MA. Clinical practice. Bipolar disorder&#8211;a focus on depression. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jan 6;364(1):51-9. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21208108\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Jan 12, 2011.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[16,15,878,1258,14,13,876,879],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychiatry","tag-criteria","tag-criterios","tag-depresion","tag-depression","tag-diagnostic","tag-diagnostico","tag-major","tag-mayor"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}