#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 supertype: #depressive_disorder__clinical_depression__depression a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention 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
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