Personality Change due to Another Medical Condition

Symptoms

  • A persistent personality disturbance that represents a change from the individual’s previous characteristic personality pattern.

Note: In children, the disturbance involves a marked deviation from normal development or a significant change in the child’s usual behavior patterns, lasting at least 1 year.

  • There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is the direct pathophysiological consequence of another medical condition.

  • The disturbance is not better explained by another mental disorder (including another mental disorder due to another medical condition).

  • 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.