a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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Neurotic depression
a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic
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a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general…
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Psychology, Abnormal psychology.
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a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.Depression occasioned by terror; dismay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or tr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A depression round the eye of a millstone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny har…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal fro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: depression, psychotic.
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