What is "Clinically Depressed"?

Answer 1

Copy paste, but I hope this helps you out for whatever purpose you need it for. Good Luck. BTW it came from Wikpedia.

Clinical depression (also called major depressive disorder, or sometimes unipolar when compared with bipolar disorder, which is sometimes called manic depression) is a state of intense sadness, melancholia or despair that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living. Although a low mood or state of dejection that does not affect functioning is often colloquially referred to as depression, clinical depression is a clinical diagnosis and may be different from the everyday meaning of "being depressed." Many people identify the feeling of being depressed as "feeling sad for no reason", or "having no motivation to do anything." One suffering from depression may feel tired, sad, irritable, lazy, unmotivated, and apathetic. Clinical depression is generally acknowledged to be more serious than normal depressed feelings. It often leads to constant negative thinking and sometimes substance abuse.

Without careful assessment, delirium can easily be confused with depression and a number of other psychiatric disorders because many of the signs and symptoms are conditions present in depression, as well as other mental illnesses including dementia and psychosis.[

Answer 2

Also known as unipolar or major depression, clinical depression is a state of depression so severe as to require clinical intervention by a health care professional. It has several treatment options, including psychotherapy, antidepressant medication, and electroconvulsive therapy. When five or more symptoms listed on a standard depression quiz are present for at least two weeks, but tend to continue for four to six months, the mood disorder is considered clinical / major depression.

Answer 3

The psychiatric nurse here to help.

Don't go there. Its all rubbish. Nobody knows the human mind and psychiatrists love to put labels on things to help them write their notes. Depression was not made in a clinic so science is not to be associated with depression full stop. All I can say is that if you can go through this life without a period of depression then you are certifiably insane. If you are thinking of suicide then you are not at rock bottom. People who kill themselves have a period of elation before doing it. So what is depression the answer is yet to be decided. Psychiatry is only 100 years old or more. It has no answer. Schizophrenia, bi polar can be explained medically or scientifically but with depression we've got a long long way to go.

I hate labels and never let anyone put one on you especially in mental health. It is stigmatising and can remain for all your life. I have nursed so many people who hang on to these labels because a psychiatrist has given it to them . Be strong form your own identity then you might just be on the way to good health.

Wishing you all the best Sab.

Answer 4

When you go to a psychiatrist to assess your condition; what you tell him/her is called the symptoms, and what he observes on you is called the signs. He/ she uses both to come up with a diagnosis. The Approved diagnostic criteria are published by the American Psychiatric Association. If the signs and symptoms he she finds on you fit the diagnostic criteria for the diagnostic category depression, then you are Clinically Depressed.

Answer 5

Clinical Depression in it's severest form can lead to Death by Suicide, Sectioning under the Mental Health Act or some other form of Medical leveller such as sedation & Drugs.

The Spiral of depression is somewhere that nobody should ever go, especially when it gets out of control!

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU NEVER DO ANY WRONGS & CONCENTRATE YOUR LIFES EFFORTS TO HELPING OTHERS, CONTRIBUTING ONLY GOOD TO THE WORLD AS WELL AS SMILING & BEING HAPPY!!!

Answer 6

You have to meet a set of criteria to get the diagnosis. Some of the criteria includes depressed mood (sadness) or lack of interest for at least two weeks along with other symptoms. In order for one to be diagnosed it has to interfere with daily functioning.

Answer 7

It is when you have taken a series of tests that show you are really depressed and you have a chemical imbalance in the brain. It can be helped with medication.

Answer 8

This is the term they use for someone who is depressed in an ill type of way and is usually treated by pills.

Answer 9

the kind of lasting chronic depression that medication can help, as oppsosed to feeling a bit fed up that will pass.

Answer 10

A depression that has been diagnosed by a psychiatrist.