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Comment author: Decius 03 May 2013 03:33:10PM 2 points [-]

That is, literally and entirely and without exception, everything that is true about the word depression as defined by DSM.

My point was that that definition does not adequately describe the territory; like 'Having a taxable income less than an arbitrary value' does not adequately define poverty. I was trying to use the map to talk about the territory, not use the map to talk about the map.

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