psychotic depression
1
8.8
- noun
- /saɪˈkɑtɪk dɪˈprɛʃən/
- Specialized
:
depresión psicótica
- And now that I realise I've just been suffering from a simple psychotic depression, I feel strangely empowered.
- cases of psychotic depression
There are many people who have specific psychotic depression before they're meant before their moon cycle starts.
- There are many people who have specific psychotic depression before they're meant before their moon cycle starts.
Examples
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And I don't need a genetic test to know I didn't inherit my father and grandfather's psychotic depression.
Blog text (34) -
Between his dwindling cash flow and mounting legal bills, he's sinking into a deep psychotic depression.
Fiction book (2002) -
And my father died when I was a baby from starvation, um, because he had psychotic depression and he starved himself, which I'm sure was just as pleasant as it sounds.
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Thus, it is natural that the extreme cases of psychotic depression, whose physiological result seems to be to shut down global affective processing, are experienced as disembodiment.
Academic text (1999) -
She struggled with psychotic depression, feeling detached from reality and experiencing vivid hallucinations.
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Doctors diagnosed him with psychotic depression after he reported hearing voices that weren't there.
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Living with psychotic depression severely affected her ability to perform daily tasks and maintain relationships.
Antonyms
- Archaic
A long time of deep sadness and worry without false beliefs or hearing things that are not there
How Severe
- Specialized
1
8.8
- Specialized
8
3.9
- Specialized
61
3.7
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'psychotic' (loss of contact with reality) modifies 'depression' (a depressive disorder), yielding 'depression with psychotic features.' Although clinical in register, the composition follows regular English modifier+noun patterns and is cross-linguistically interpretable, so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Psychotic depression comes from two parts: psychotic, meaning someone may 'see or hear things that are not real' or have strong false beliefs, and depression, meaning deep sadness and low energy. So the term describes a very severe depression where a person is both deeply sad and 'out of touch with reality'.