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Meanings of clinical depression in English

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

Usage of clinical depression in English
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However, conceptual accounts of depression suggest this might differ in clinical depression.
Pubmed
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It's important to distinguish clinical depression from other emotions such as grief.
Feminist dot com
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This sluggish, self-important tribute to clinical depression managed to kill the franchise.
Wired
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One submission read: I'd first been diagnosed with clinical depression 16 years ago.
Radio NZ
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Psychiatrists regard a patient's indifference to flowers as a symptom of clinical depression.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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Yet in recent years " clinical depression" has become a much broader term.
Wired
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Andrew experienced clinical depression since age 15, and in the end took his life.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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It is also on record that Peterson and his daughter have suffered clinical depression.
The Guardian
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They would wake in the night, screaming in terror, and sink into clinical depression.
NY Magazine
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However, the extent to which clinical depression is related to comorbid medical conditions is unknown.
Pubmed
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The study also found evidence of the under-treatment of clinical depression in the over 50s.
The Irish Times
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The writer describes Monroe's untreated clinical depression and insomnia and their effect on the actress.
The new yorker
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But you soon realise the futility of this and then spiral downward into clinical depression.
The South African
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It is as useful as anti-depressants for many and even those with moderate clinical depression.
The Irish Times
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At the time, Mason was suffering from clinical depression.
The Guardian
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It had been claimed in a Sunday newspaper that she was suffering from clinical depression.
The Irish Times
This collocation consists of:
Clinical depression through the time
Clinical depression across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Rare