Grief as a psychiatric disorder.

The revisions DSM-5 and ICD-11 are attempting to describe psychopathological reactions to bereavement. The delineation between depressive disorder and normal bereavement-related depressed state lacks sufficient data to guide diagnostic development. In contrast, there is strong evidence for a diagnosis of prolonged grief that is distinguished from depression and involves marked impairment.

Citation

Richard A Bryant. Grief as a psychiatric disorder. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 2012 Jul;201:9-10

PMID: 22753851

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