I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
manic depressive
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
illness
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A massive 3,324, working days were lost because of depressive illnesses between and in Northern Ireland alone.
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Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.
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He said Spanswick's wife had left him and he was suffering from a depressive illness .
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Defining rigorously what constitutes a clinically significant depressive illness is problematic, regardless of the age range under consideration.
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Many are suffering from severe depressive illnesses , often with persecutory ideas or delusions.
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Some examples of the kinds of events and difficulties which provoked depressive illnesses in the sample are given in the Appendix.
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While a number of depressive illnesses treated by psychiatrists seem to have no link with environmental stress, many more do.
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They did not have a higher rate of manic depressive illness or anxiety neurosis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anthony Storr shows how these depressive fears were magically transmuted in the literary sphere.
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Antidepressants Antidepressants with sedative effects are usually recommended when insomnia is associated with a depressive disorder.
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He suffered, like Vincent, from depressive attacks, of a kind now seen as indicating acute anxiety neurosis.
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Indeed, depressive traits are more in evidence than paranoid tendencies.
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Many young people are struggling with a depressive illness that requires medical treatment.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Will write to anyone, anywhere All manic depressives and black-clothed persons accepted.