What Major Depression REALLY Is (Psychologist Explains)
It's important to distinguish between some occasional times of feeling sad or depressed because we're human versus depression that is actually clinically diagnoseable as a mental health condition. By the end of this video, you'll know the official symptoms that define a standard diagnosis of depression, called Major Depressive Disorder.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
1:30 Criterion A: Five of these nine symptoms
4:24 Criterion B: Causing clinically significant distress
4:43 Criterion C: Not caused by a substance or medical condition
5:08 Criterion D: Not better explained by a different mental health condition
5:52 Criterion E: There has never been a manic or hypomanic episode
6:30 Feeling depressed versus diagnosable depression
6:48 Diagnosis tells us what, not why
Sources
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596
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