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depression
(redirected from reactive depression)

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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


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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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