DEPRESSIVE


Meaning of DEPRESSIVE in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

manic depressive

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

illness

A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.

Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.

He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness .

Defining rigorously what constitutes a clinically significant depressive illness is problematic, regardless of the age range under consideration.

Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses , often with persecutory ideas or delusions.

Some examples of the kinds of events and difficulties which provoked depressive illnesses in the sample are given in the Appendix.

While a number of depressive illnesses treated by psychiatrists seem to have no link with environmental stress, many more do.

They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Anthony Storr shows how these depressive fears were magically transmuted in the literary sphere.

Antidepressants Antidepressants with sedative effects are usually recommended when insomnia is associated with a depressive disorder.

He suffered, like Vincent, from depressive attacks, of a kind now seen as indicating acute anxiety neurosis.

Indeed, depressive traits are more in evidence than paranoid tendencies.

Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Will write to anyone, anywhere All manic depressives and black-clothed persons accepted.

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