How do you treat disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?
Answer from: at Community Practice
DMDD is a fairly new diagnosis in the DSM, it is under the cluster of depressive disorders, in my opinion should be under anxiety disorders or impulsive control disorders. DMDD is usually a response of frustration and feeling overwhelmed. DMDD is associated in many times with an OCPD. Chi...
DMDD is quite an enigma. The whole concept of irritability, which transcends many diagnoses, is also interesting. DMDD was meant to avoid overdiagnosis of moody disruptive behavior as bipolar. Since many of those kids are not suffering from bipolar disorder, I thought it was a great move. Unfortunat...