Please find below a list of disorders related to the diagnostic category, Mood Disorders. The Mood Disorders Work Group has been responsible for addressing these revisions. Among the work group’s proposals is the recommendation that Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified to be subdivided and relabeled as Depressive Conditions Not Elsewhere Classified. This could allow clinicians to identify individuals with depressive symptoms who do not meet criteria for a mood disorder but who are experiencing dysfunction and may be in need of treatment. The work group continues to discuss this proposal in detail. The Mood Disorders Work Group is proposing that clinician severity dimensions of factors that determine treatment outcome that are not included in the criteria for the category be included with each categorical mood diagnosis (and maybe with other categories to be determined). At present the committee is proposing an anxiety dimension across all mood disorder categories as well as a suicide assessment dimension (Updated June 3, 2010). A substance abuse severity dimension is under consideration but a model for clinician rated substance abuse seerity has not yet been developed. The Mood Disorders Workgroup has formed an expert subworkgroup on Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) chaired by Kim Yonkers, M.D., to examine data concerning the possibility that PMDD might classify as a separate and distinct disorder from mood disorders or a specifier for mood disorders. They have not completed their review of this question in time for this presentation. Finally, the work group is addressing some disorders currently listed under the category, Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. These include: Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria, Non-Suicidal Self Injury, and Non-Suicidal Self Injury Not Otherwise Specified. We appreciate your review and comment on these disorders.