Figure 2.

Duration of symptoms during remissions, recoveries, relapses, and recurrences.²⁹

Notes: Depressed primary care patients (N=267) were monitored over 3 years for the presence or absence of depressive symptom clusters week by week during DSM-4–defined remissions, recoveries, relapses, and recurrences. The mean proportion of time each symptom cluster was present during ‘n’ number of phases is shown.

Abbreviation: DSM-4, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.