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Abstract
Mood disorders are highly prevalent and have a major impact on daily life of both patients and their partners and relatives. MDD now ranks as the first cause of years lived with impairment in Europe, whereas BD ranks 12th. Patients with mood disorders may experience serious impairments in psychosocial functioning and quality of life, despite adequate treatment. Syndromal recovery (i.e., no longer fulfilling the formal criteria of a mood episode) does not necessarily lead to a level of functioning comparable to healthy persons, which may in part occurred due to persistent subsyndromal symptoms. Although it is obvious that major depression will impair psychosocial functioning, it is unclear to which extent functioning remains impaired after recovery of an episode and which factors determine functional recovery. Moreover, there is evidence that with each successive illness episode residual symptoms increase, and functional recovery further declines. So, our study aimed to illustrate the pattern of symptomatic and functional outcome of Major Depressive episode in the context of different socio-demographic classes in our culture.