neurotic depression
- noun
- /nʊˈrɑtɪk dɪˈprɛʃən/
- Archaic
:
depresión neurótica
- Unlike psychotic depression, neurotic depression does not include hallucinations or delusional thinking.
Examples
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The patient responded well to therapy aimed at treating his neurotic depression.
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Her doctor diagnosed her with neurotic depression after carefully evaluating her symptoms and medical history.
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Many people suffer from neurotic depression silently.
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Her struggle with neurotic depression has been challenging.
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Her doctor diagnosed her with neurotic depression after carefully evaluating her symptoms and medical history.
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The patient responded well to therapy aimed at treating his neurotic depression.
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Unlike psychotic depression, neurotic depression does not include hallucinations or delusional thinking.
Antonyms
- Specialized
1
8.8
Severe depression where a person loses touch with reality and has hallucinations or false beliefs
How Severe
- Specialized
1
8.8
- Specialized
1
6.1
- Archaic
- Specialized
1
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: a B1 learner who knows 'neurotic' (relating to neurosis) and 'depression' can infer it means a type of depression characterized by neurotic symptoms. While some clinical nuance (e.g. distinction from psychotic depression) is specialized, the core meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Neurotic depression combines neurotic, meaning strong worry or emotional trouble, and depression, meaning deep sadness. It comes from older medical use where 'neurotic' meant emotional problems without 'seeing or believing things that are not real', so the phrase means a kind of depression tied to emotional distress rather than to those symptoms.