depressive episode
Prolonged emotional collapse
A depressive episode is a period of persistent low mood, loss of interest, and diminished energy lasting at least two weeks—the defining unit of clinical depression.
Symptoms typically include changes in sleep, appetite, concentration, and feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness.
She recognized the signs of another depressive episode and called her therapist.
Episodes may occur once or recur throughout a person's life, with or without manic episodes.
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- despairTotal absence of hope
- hopelessnessState without hope
- darknessTotal absence of light
- black dogMetaphor for depression
low mood · dark cloud · numbness · fatigue · withdrawal · isolation · tearful · emptiness · heaviness · deep hole · insomnia · exhaustion · melancholy · apathy · brain fog · medication · therapy · seeking help
- depressionsadness, hopelessness, anhedonia, low mood, dysthymia
- flare-upsflare-up, exacerbation, relapse, outbreak, attack
- mental illnessschizophrenia, mental illness, psychosis, bipolar disorder, neurosis
- Mood Disordersbipolar disorder, dysthymia, cyclothymia, bipolar II, seasonal affective disorder
- bipolar disordermania, hypomania, bipolar II, cyclothymia, mood swings
- mental crisesnervous breakdown, mental breakdown, mental collapse, mental break, emotional collapse
depressive episodemanic episode
Period of abnormal elation
mania · hypomania · elevated mood · euphoria · elation
depressive episodeflourishing
Prospering vigorously
thriving · remission · peak experience · emotional wellbeing · mental wellness
depressive episodepeak experience
Profound moment of joy
flow state · joy · bliss · vitality · zest for life
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