major depressive episode
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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

psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

clinical depression, depressive disorder, depression - a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

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

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major depressive episode (redirected from Major depressive episodes)

major depressive episode
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