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depression

[dih-presh-uhn] / dɪˈprɛʃ ən /




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The study also lacked information on several factors that could potentially influence postoperative pain, including anxiety, depression, cancer stage, cancer treatment, and sleep disturbance before surgery.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

On Wednesday, Morissette appeared on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and told host Alex Cooper that she experienced postpartum depression after giving birth to each of children, and that the condition worsened each time.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

It’s also linked with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depression, anxiety and premature death.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

But some of them seemed to dispute the defence's claim that postpartum psychosis - a rare post-childbirth condition characterised by mania and depression - precluded Clancy from criminal liability.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

For the rest of his life, William would go through cycles when his mind would race, insomnia would take hold, and he would fall into a deep depression.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Market corrections, recessions, depressions, pandemics and human folly, along with investing in individual stocks despite the standard advice to diversify your holdings, can all take a toll on retirement savings.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Wars, diseases, revolutions, depressions, bankruptcies, financial crises and natural disasters all swept through history and wiped out wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The energy released by the blast may have also created small depressions in the ground that later filled with water, forming today's swamps and lakes.

From Science Daily Dec. 19, 2025

That era also coincided with a succession of financial crises that could have sparked serious economic depressions had they not been constrained by the regulatory mechanisms the New Deal had put in place.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2025

At the graveyard, a few depressions, but otherwise the ground was filled with pine boughs the snow had brought down.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt




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