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involutional depression

DEFINITIONS OF: involutional depression

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n a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric

Type of:
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
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