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depression noun debasement, decline, deflation, depreciation, despondence, despondency, dispiritedness, dolefulness, economic decline, gloom, lowering, lowness, maeror, sinking, slump Associated concepts: economic depression See also: anguish, curtailment, decrease, distress, pessimism, prostration How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The mental health team she joined there counsels a lot of people with reactive depression and adjustment disorders -- a legacy of the uncertainty that comes from being in detention. For people experiencing its endogenous form, recurrences often appear with minimal environmental nudges, while people with reactive depression slide back into melancholy in response to highly stressful events. Glenn and Rosenthal (1985) report that a reactive depression is most common in the months or even years following head injury. |
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