In indian rural population setting where true literacy rate seldom croses more than 70% in women, the perception of depressive illness and the symptoms presentation are varied & predominately somatic.

Symptoms type variation & the degree of their educational status are corelated here to observe any deviancy.

Symptom type & litaracy status can show an association in depressed women in a clinic.

About 280 women in the age group 21-51 with a median age of 36years were taken here for assesment, who were diagonosed as suffering from depressive disorder asper DSM-4, either MDD or Bipolar depression. they all attended a mind care clinic(Mono-Susrusha), in a Ditrict HQTRS town Midnapore,126 k.m away from stte capital city of Kolkata.

5 basic symptoms were quried here as those were the major presenting features,

1. 1. Headpain or head discomfort or pain around neck

2. 2. Pain in lower extremeties or other sites

3. 3. sleep diturbance, loss of appetite or libid diminution

4. 4. Lack of pleasure or lossof interests to all daily activities

5. 5. Sucidal ideas

Next their litracy status illrtarate(20%), junior school(55%), highschool(12%),graduate,postgrauate &above(12%) uncertain in 1% cases.were assesed.

A tally was made to their educationalstatus&above symptoms.

Somatic, bodily pain symptoms were mostly presenting feature in illetarate & lower school educated women.Biological(3rdlisted), lack of pleasure & suicidal urges were echoed mainly in higher educated women group of graduate&above.

Suicidal urges are more percieved in depressed educated women &somatic symptom predominancy were observed more in illterate &junior level educated group.