Originally posted by: Enigma24
Lets get this clear for once. 
Anxiety disorder requires minimum of 6 months to diagnose, 
Depressive disorder needs 2 weeks with atleast 5 symptoms out of 9 to be present from the criteria. Nothing less than that. 
Schizophrenia again requires atleast 6 months to diagnose. Any timeline less than that agaon becomes a brief psychotic episode (1 day to 1 month) or schizophreniform (1 month to 6 months) 
Persistent depression ( previously called dysthymia) requires 2 yrs
Bipolar requires atleast one full blown episode of mania/hypomanis and one full episode of depression to actually diagnose it as bipolar. 
It's not halwa. It is diagnosis of major Psychiatric illnesses
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