What is "depressives"

Usage examples of "depressives".

Segal (1992) found that recovered dependent depressives were plunged back into depression by a loss or conflict in interpersonal relationships.

But, self-critical depressives relapsed when they failed at school or work.

Do hopeless depressives only feel guilty and ashamed of sins of omission?

But Richard was not a well-known writer, and he got this kind of letter every other year (and they were normally about book reviewing anyway though he did receive the odd scrawled note from hospitals and mental institutions where his novels were found in the libraries or on the book trolleys and stirred strange responses in depressives and amputees and other patients whose minds were disorganized by drugs).

He seemed to want something more complicated: he likedor kept going out withdark and violent depressives who never ate anything and never got the curse.

You've heard of manic depressives, there are also morning depressives.

He came from a long line of manic depressives, megalomaniacs, and megalomaniac depressives.

Manic depressives and schizophrenics were lumped with acute psychotics and hopeless alcoholics.

Nor that jokes and sarcasm were here usually too pregnant and fertile with clinical significance not to be taken seriously: sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.