Depression or depress may refer to:
Psychology
- Depression (mood), a lack of positive affect
- Colloquially, Adjustment disorder with depressed mood, previously known as Reactive depression. In the fields of Psychology and Psychiatry, the terms depression or depressed refer to both expected and pathologically chronic or severe In Psychology, adjustment disorder (AD is a classification of mental disorder that is a psychological response from an identifiable stressor or group of stressors that causes
- Major depressive disorder a clinical diagnosis of a state of intense sadness
- Melancholic depression a sub-type of clinical depression characterized by an inability to feel pleasure combined with physical agitation, insomnia, or decreased appetite
- Atypical depression, a cyclical sub-type of clinical depression where sleep, feeding and perception of pleasure are normal but there is a feeling of lethargy
- Psychotic depression, a sub-type of clinical depression combined with psychotic or delusional perceptions
- Postnatal depression, clinical depression following childbirth
- Depression is the 4th stage of the Kübler-Ross model (commonly known as the "stages of dying"). Major depressive disorder, also known as major depression, unipolar depression, unipolar disorder, clinical depression, or simply depression Melancholic depression, or 'depression with melancholic features' is a subtype of major depression characterized by the inability to find pleasure in positive things combined Atypical Depression (AD is a subtype of Dysthymia and Major Depression characterized by mood reactivity — being able to experience improved mood in response to positive events Psychotic major depression (PMD is a type of depression that can include symptoms and treatments that are different from those of non-psychotic Major depressive disorder (NPMD The Kübler-Ross model first introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book " On Death and Dying " describes in five discrete stages a
Physiology
Other
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Dictionary
depression
-noun
- (geography) an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings
- (psychology) in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future
- (psychology) in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide
- (meteorology) an area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes
- (economics) a period of major economic contraction
- (biology, physiology) a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation
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