Depression
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Depression generally signifies a lowering or reduction of some kind, for example in the context of mood, economy, or functionality:
- Psychology and mood
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- Depression (mood), a common term for a sad or low mood or emotional state, or the loss of pleasure.
- Clinical depression, or major depressive disorder, a clinical term for a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. Subtypes of clinical depression:
- Melancholic depression, characterized by the inability to find pleasure in positive things combined with physical agitation, insomnia, or decreased appetite.
- Atypical depression, a common long term cyclical form of depression in which the individual can feel enjoyment, eat, and sleep, but there is significant lethargy, a 'leaden' feeling, and a strong response to rejection-related issues.
- Psychotic depression, in which clinical depression co-exists with psychotic or delusional perceptions.
- Postpartum depression, depression following childbirth, sometimes known as 'postpartum blues'.
- Other medical and biological uses
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- Depression (physiology), a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, contrasted to elevation
- Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion
- Other uses
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- Depression (geology), a sunken geological formation
- Depression (economics), a longer-lasting and more severe economic downturn than a recession
- The Great Depression, a severe economic recession in the 1930s
- Depression (meteorology), an area of low atmospheric pressure associated with cyclones and weather fronts
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Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .

