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DSM V Draft

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As detailed in this ABC new story, a draft of the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders is now available for review.

There was a rumor floating around a few months back that one of the new proposed diagnoses would include obesity.  We'll have to trot our way through the draft to see if that has come to fruition. 

Update: The Guardian reports:

Among the proposals is a new condition, "temper dysregulation with dysphoria", characterised by "severe, recurrent outbursts of temper" several times a week, that are "grossly out of proportion to the situation or provocation and that interfere significantly with functioning". To be considered, the "symptoms" must have been "diagnosed" before age 10.

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