Can the DSM's major depression bereavement exclusion be validly extended to other stressors?: Evidence from the NCS

ConclusionUncomplicated SRDs' lower pathology levels are because of real syndromal differences, not definitional tautologies. The uncomplicated/complicated distinction has discriminant validity when extended to non‐bereavement SRDs as an indicator of normality vs. disorder. (Source: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)

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