affective disorder

Other forms: affective disorders

Definitions of affective disorder

1. noun

   any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
   synonyms: emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder

   types:

   clinical depression, depression, depressive disorder

   a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

   mania, manic disorder

   a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently

   bipolar disorder, manic depression, manic depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis

   a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression

   agitated depression

   a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness

   anaclitic depression

   severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute

   dysthymia, dysthymic depression

   mild chronic depression

   endogenous depression

   a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause

   exogenous depression, reactive depression

   an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)

   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

   neurotic depression

   a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic

   psychotic depression

   a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments

   retarded depression

   a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action

   craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria

   state of violent mental agitation

   cyclic disorder, cyclothymia, cyclothymic disorder

   a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time

   type of:

   disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder

   (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness