depressive disorder

Definitions of depressive disorder

1. noun

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

   types:

   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

   involutional depression

   a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric

   unipolar depression

   a major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase that occurs in the classic form of bipolar disorder

   type of:

   affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder

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