Question

A person cannot be diagnosed with both major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder at the same time.

	1) True
	2) False

Answer 1

A person cannot be diagnosed with both major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder at the same time.

The correct answer is False.

Justification - A person can be diagnosed with major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder at the same time and such an occurence is called as Double Depression. It is said that, the chronicity of double depression is to a greater extent in comparision of the major depressive disorder and the persistent depressive disorder alone.