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