clinical depression

noun
Psychiatry. a depression so severe as to be considered abnormal, either because of no obvious environmental causes, or because the reaction to unfortunate life circumstances is more intense or prolonged than would generally be expected.
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clinical depression

noun
a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: depressive disorder
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Clinical depression is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Clinical depression certainly is affected by serotonin.
Clinical depression is readily treatable with counseling and medication.
The symptoms are pretty much identical with clinical depression.
The process literally plunged me into a bout with clinical depression.
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