situational depression
Context-triggered low mood
Situational depression is a depressive state triggered by specific life circumstances—job loss, divorce, bereavement, or other significant stressors.
Unlike clinical depression, which may arise without clear external cause, situational depression has an identifiable source and typically lifts when circumstances improve or the person adapts: The therapist diagnosed situational depression following her layoff.
Also called adjustment disorder with depressed mood.
- reactiveTending to respond
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- life eventSignificant personal milestone
- temporaryLimited in duration
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
loss · trigger · circumstance · stressor · episode · rough patch · sadness · overwhelm · burnout · tearful · hopeless · dark cloud · withdrawal · coping · talk therapy · therapy · support system · getting through
situational depressionchronic depression
Prolonged mental health disorder
clinical depression · major depressive disorder · dysthymia · recurrent depression · double depression
situational depressioneuphoria
Intense emotional high
elation · flourishing · thriving · well-being
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