Chronic Pain and the Differential Diagnosis of Mood Disorders

I need to get people's opinions on a differential diagnostic issue. Situation would be a patient with chronic pain who develops clinically significant depressive symptoms as a result (or, at least with the stress of the chronic pain contributing substantially to mood dysfunction). My contention would be that this would NOT be diagnosed as a 'Depressive Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition' but rather an Adjustment Disorder With Depressed Mood (or even MDD if full criteria for MDD are... Read more
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