WordNet
n. a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention [syn: depressive disorder, depression]
Usage examples of "clinical depression".
At the time Tunneckis was in bad mental shape, fearful of its surroundings, of its unthinkable future as a telepathic mute, and was suffering from a deep, clinical depression that seemingly would continue for the rest of its life.
My medical practice withered, then died, and I sank into clinical depression.
Meaning, of course, that he had been diagnosed as having clinical depression.
Gelbard's syndrome is something a little different from clinical depression, they tell me, it's deeper, it's a response to the whole human mess, a sort of cultural exhaustion, a burnout phenomenon —.
If you have experienced bad clinical depression you may know what I mean.
Of course, so had the clinical depression that had rendered him impotent for months and the heavy dosage of Prozac and other drugs that followed.
And when we grew too enervated to practice active self-destruction, we sank into clinical depression, as Arlie was doing now.
Half a dozen years after the death of my wife, Maria, I felt as if I were coming out of a deep rut, maybe even a clinical depression.
Still, she carried its emotional scars for some time afterward, even sinking into a clinical depression.
Three of the affected children have committed suicide, and several of the others are being treated for clinical depression.