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The debate as to whether depression is unimodally or bimodally distributed has rotated around studies whose variables have included precipitating events, events consequent upon the illness, personality traits, and inessential symptoms in addition to uniquely defining characteristics. The confusion caused by failing to distinguish between differentiae and descriptive symptoms was discussed at some length by
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