clinical depression
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No objective cutoff distinguishes ordinary worry from clinical anxiety, or grief from clinical depression.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
But with these participants with clinical depression, we actually induced them to ruminate about negative thoughts and feelings before they went on the walk.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
It almost immediately emerged in media reports that Mr Eagleton had received electroshock treatment in hospital for clinical depression a decade earlier.
From BBC • Jul. 31, 2024
Nancy began to think that he was in a clinical depression.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
