DEPRESSION: a state of being depressed: as a (1): a state of feeling sad (2): a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty with thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal thoughts or an attempt to commit suicide
AGITATED DEPRESSION: a psychotic state characterized by restlessness, overactivity, anxiety, and despair but not accompanied by gross disorganization or deterioration
ANACLITIC DEPRESSION: impaired development of an infant resulting from separation from its mother
MANIC DEPRESSION: BIPOLAR DISORDER (any of several mood disorders characterized usually by alternating episodes of depression and mania or by episodes of depression alternating with mild nonpsychotic excitement � called also bipolar affective disorder, manic-depression, manic-depressive psychosis)
MAJOR DEPRESSION DISORDER: a mood disorder having a clinical course involving one or more episodes of serious psychological depression that last two or more weeks each, do not have intervening episodes of mania or hypomania, and are characterized by a loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities and by some or all of disturbances of appetite, sleep, or psychomotor functioning, a decrease in energy, difficulties in thinking or making decisions, loss of self-esteem or feelings of guilt, and suicidal thoughts or attempts
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