Depression

Of affective disorder.   May also be referred to as clinical depression and depressive disorder.

A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention.

This concept's ID is @1~72621

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  • major depressive episode 2 facts

    (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia...

  • anaclitic depression 0 facts

    Severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not...

  • agitated depression 0 facts

    A state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and...

  • endogenous depression 0 facts

    A state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause.

  • dysthymia 0 facts

    Mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years,...

  • exogenous depression 0 facts

    An inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the...

  • neurotic depression 0 facts

    A term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic.

  • retarded depression 0 facts

    A state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow...

  • psychotic depression 0 facts

    A state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality...