#major_affective_disorder__majoraffectivedisorder__affective_disorder__affectivedisorder__emotional_disorder__emotionaldisorder__emotional_disturbance__emotionaldisturbance  any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
  supertype:  mental_disorder__mental_disturbance__disturbance__psychological_disorder__psychologicaldisorder__folie  (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
  subtype:  depressive_disorder__clinical_depression__depression  a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
     subtype:  agitated_depression  a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness
     subtype:  anaclitic_depression__anacliticdepression  severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute
     subtype:  dysthymia__dysthymic_depression__dysthymicdepression  mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"
     subtype:  endogenous_depression  a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause
     subtype:  exogenous_depression__exogenousdepression__reactive_depression  an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)
     subtype:  major_depressive_episode  (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction
        subtype:  involutional_depression  a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
        subtype:  unipolar_depression  a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occurs in the classic form of bipolar disorder
     subtype:  neurotic_depression  a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic
     subtype:  psychotic_depression__psychoticdepression  a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments
     subtype:  retarded_depression  a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action
  subtype:  manic_disorder__manicdisorder__mania  a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently
     subtype:  craze__delirium__frenzy__fury__hysteria  state of violent mental agitation
        subtype:  nympholepsy  a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable
  subtype:  bipolar_disorder__bipolardisorder__manicdepression__manicdepressiveillnes__manic-depressive_psychosis  a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
     subtype:  cyclothymia__cyclothymic_disorder__cyclothymicdisorder__cyclic_disorder  a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time

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