Symmetrical treatment of “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition”, for major depressive disorders

Table 7 Presentation of examples of the severity assessment after the modification of Criterion A

Symptom number	1	2	3	4	5 (fear)	6	7	8	9		Episode
row 1	2	5	3	0	3	6	2	0	1	(mod 7)	1
row 2	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	(mod 7)	0
row 3	0	0	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	(mod 7)	0
row 4	5	4	0	2	3	1	0	3	6	(mod 7)	1
row 5	0	6	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	(mod 7)	0
row 6	1	5	3	0	1	1	4	0	1	(mod 7)	1
row 7 (= row 4)	5	4	0	2	3	1	0	3	6	(mod 7)	1
row 8 (= row 2)	0	2	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	(mod 7)	0
row 9	0	6	4	1	5	0	0	0	2	(mod 7)	1
row 10	5	4	0	2	6	1	0	3	6	(mod 7)	1
Total sum	18	38	14	13	25	18	6	9	30		6
Average	1.8	3.8	1.4	1.3	2.5	1.8	0.6	0.9	3.0		0.6

Examples of symptom severity after modification of Criterion A are presented. A new item ‘fear’ was incorporated between symptoms 4 and 5, and the ninth symptom ‘diminished ability’ (eighth symptom in the original Criterion A) was deleted. A compressed expression similar to that in Table 4 can be given: {2∙‹A›_540231036(4,7), 2∙‹A›_020004003(2,8), ‹A›_540261036(10),…}. Note that the components of rows 2 and 8 are equivalent, as are those of rows 4 and 7. Similar to the case for Table 4, the number of rows does not exceed 7^×9

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