Substance/Medication-Induced Bipolar and Related Disorder

Symptoms

• A prominent and persistent disturbance in mood that predominates in the clinical picture and is characterized by elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, with or without depressed mood, or markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities.

• There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings of both :

  1. The symptoms developed during or soon after substance intoxication or withdrawal or after exposure to a medication.

  2. The involved substance/medication is capable of producing the symptoms.

• The disturbance is not better explained by a bipolar or related disorder that is not substance/medication-induced.

• The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a delirium.

• The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.