People with high-functioning anxiety are typically high-achievers, perfectionists, and “type A,” whose symptoms of ...

For nearly 75 years, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health" (DSM) has been the go-to text for diagnosing mental health conditions. But when two people can receive the same ...

It is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, as a period of at least two weeks during which you feel ...

Classified in the DSM-V as a “depressive disorder,” symptoms occur during the premenstrual, or luteal, phase of the menstrual cycle and subside within the first few days of menstruation.

Some patients with bipolar disorder suffer mixed states, defined in DSM as manic episodes with depressive or dysphoric features. These states are exacerbated by antidepressants and preferentially ...

Medically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhD Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is one of several personality disorders ...

In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), mood disorders (affective disorders) are ...

No matter one’s politics, there can be little doubt among rational people that Donald Trump is the greatest falsifier who ...

Kids with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder have explosive outbursts well past toddler age. Scientists are trying to ...

as described in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). [1] These subtypes of bipolar disorders cover a spectrum of severities, frequencies ...

The word delusional or "delulu" is often thrown around in jest. But what does it mean clinically? Here, experts explain.

Although it was once classified as its own condition, Asperger’s is no longer an official diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The behavior ascribed to ...