DSM-V: Modifying the postpartum-onset specifier to include hypomania

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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. © 2010 The Author(s).

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Sharma, V., & Burt, V. K. (2011). DSM-V: Modifying the postpartum-onset specifier to include hypomania. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 14(1), 67–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-010-0182-2

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