reactive depression

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noun

depression occurring in response to some situational stress, as loss of one's job.

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Origin of reactive depression

First recorded in 1920–25

Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
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These are reactive, not proactive, stances, and they do little to offer substantive solutions.
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Adrift in senility and depression, Hitchcock is dismantling his life, putting it away.
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He did suffer from ‘Black Dog’ [depression] as he called it and having something to concentrate on was therapeutic for him.
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The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
Financial depression had succeeded a time of wild excitement, and the Midland dividend had fallen from seven to two per cent.
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Depression of these key-touches brought different combinations of stops into use on the keyboard above which they were placed.
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The true causes of the depression were not within the control of the Insular Government or of any ruling factor.
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Even if your first passion for her does cool somewhat, will nothing remain but disenchantment and depression?
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reactive depression

[ rē-ăk′tĭv ]

Depression precipitated by something intensely sad or distressing.