Diagnosing and Managing Depressive Episodes in the DSM-5 Era

The premise of the newly introduced mixed features specifier in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is similar to what was proposed approximately a century ago as part of the “manic depression” unification hypothesis. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) originally conceptualized affective states as a continuum, wherein an individual’s diagnosis was arrived at via a confluence of contemporaneous disturbances in mood, thought processes, and volition (behavior). His original description was agnostic insofar as it lacked the 2 categorical constructs, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder—terms that eventually appeared in the DSM.

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The premise of the newly introduced mixed features specifier in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is similar to what was proposed approximately a century ago as part of the “manic depression” unification hypothesis. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) originally conceptualized affective states as a continuum, wherein an individual’s diagnosis was arrived at via a confluence of contemporaneous disturbances in mood, thought processes, and volition (behavior). His original description was agnostic insofar as it lacked the 2 categorical constructs, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder—terms that eventually appeared in the DSM.

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The premise of the newly introduced mixed features specifier in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) is similar to what was proposed approximately a century ago as part of the “manic depression” unification hypothesis. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) originally conceptualized affective states as a continuum, wherein an individual’s diagnosis was arrived at via a confluence of contemporaneous disturbances in mood, thought processes, and volition (behavior). His original description was agnostic insofar as it lacked the 2 categorical constructs, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder—terms that eventually appeared in the DSM.

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