Paediatrics Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2011
Journal
Archives of Women's Mental Health
Volume
14
Issue
1
First Page
67
Last Page
69
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1007/s00737-010-0182-2
Abstract
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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