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DISRUPTIVE DISRUPTION DISORDER MOOD

A. Severe and recurrent anger attacks that manifest verbally (eg, verbal tantrums)
and / or behavior (eg, physical aggression to persons or property) whose intensity
or duration is disproportionate to the situation or provocation.

B. Cholera accesses do not match the degree of development.

C. Cholera attacks occur, on average, three or more times per week.

D. The mood between cholera attacks is persistently irritable or irascible most of the
day, almost every day, and is observable by other people (eg, parents, teachers,
peers).

E. Criteria A-D have been present for 12 or more months. In all this time, the
individual has not had a period that will last three or more consecutive months
without all the symptoms of Criteria A-D.

F. Criteria A and D are present in at least two of three contexts (ie, at home, at
school, with peers) and are at least one of them serious.

G. The first diagnosis should not be made before 6 years or after 18 years.

H. Through history or observation, Criteria A-E begins before age 10.

I. There has never been a well-defined period of more than one day during which all
symptomatic criteria, except duration, have been met for a manic or hypomanic
episode.
J. Behaviors do not occur exclusively during an episode of major depressive disorder
and are not better explained by another mental disorder (eg, autism spectrum
disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety disorder, depressive
disorder persistent [dysthymia])
K. Symptoms can not be attributed to the physiological effects of a substance or
other medical or neurological condition.

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