affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant

agitated depression - a state of clinical depression in which the person exhibits irritability and restlessness

anaclitic depression - severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute

dysthymia, dysthymic depression - mild chronic depression; "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"

endogenous depression - a state of depression for which there is no apparent precipitating cause

exogenous depression, reactive depression - an inappropriate state of depression that is precipitated by events in the person's life (to be distinguished from normal grief)

major depressive episode - (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction

neurotic depression - a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic

psychotic depression - a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments

retarded depression - a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action