Table 2.

Criteria for melancholic features specifier (according to DSM-IV) (partly quoted verbatim).

Group A	(1) loss of pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
	(2) lack of reactivity to usually pleasurable stimuli (does not feel much better, even temporarily, when something good happens)
Group B	(1) distinct quality of depressed mood (i.e. the depressed mood is experienced as distinctly different from the kind of feeling experienced after the death of a loved one)
	(2) depression regularly worse in the morning
	(3) early morning awakening (at least 2 h before usual time of awakening)
	(4) marked psychomotor retardation or agitation
	(5) significant agitation or weight loss
	(6) excessive or inappropriate guilt