Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

A childhood-onset disorder characterized by severe recurrent temper outbursts and persistently irritable or angry mood between outbursts lasting at least 12 months.

Major Depressive Disorder

A depressive disorder involving at least two weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest plus other symptoms such as sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, or self-worth changes, causing significant impairment.

Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)

A chronic depressive disorder with a depressed mood for most of the day, more days than not, for at least two years in adults (one year in children and adolescents), with additional depressive symptoms.

Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder

A depressive disorder with mood, irritability, and physical symptoms that occur in the week before menses, improve shortly after onset of menses, and are minimal or absent post-menses, causing significant distress or impairment.

Substance/Medication-Induced Depressive Disorder

A depressive disorder in which prominent depressive symptoms develop during or soon after substance intoxication, withdrawal, or medication exposure and are judged to be caused by that substance.

Depressive Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition

A depressive disorder where a prominent and persistent depressed mood or loss of interest is judged to be the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition.

Other Specified Depressive Disorder

Depressive symptoms causing clinically significant distress or impairment that do not fully meet criteria for a specific depressive disorder, where the clinician specifies the reason (e.g., short-duration depressive episodes).

Unspecified Depressive Disorder

Depressive symptoms with clinically significant distress or impairment where there is insufficient information to make a more specific depressive disorder diagnosis or the clinician chooses not to specify.