affective disorder
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7.5
- noun
- /əˈfɛktɪv dɪsˈɔrdər/
- Specialized
:
trastorno afectivo
- The majority (58 percent, n = 11) of those who were diagnosed with schizophrenia also had a diagnosis of major affective disorder.
- bipolar affective disorder
- affective disorder diagnosis
- major affective disorder
And that was obviously really traumatic and hard, especially because I was already dealing with such bad seasonal affective disorder.
- And that was obviously really traumatic and hard, especially because I was already dealing with such bad seasonal affective disorder.
- Well, I'm diagnosed with skits, so affective disorder.
Examples
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Solomon is a 29-year-old man with bipolar affective disorder who has been prescribed lithium 500 mg bd.
Academic text (2012) -
Who knew that the light from your smartphone could improve acne or relieve seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
Blog text (8) -
I suffer from severe depression, seasonal affective disorder, and ADD.
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And so people who have seasonal affective disorders, so winter Blues that morning bright light therapy and you can actually get these therapy lamps.
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Only nine individuals (3.8 percent) had a diagnosis of an affective disorder.
Academic text (1993) -
If you have Seasonal Affective Disorder, refusing to buy full-spectrum lights is counterproductive.
Blog text (30) -
A mixture of depression and anxiety is not uncommon in affective disorders and needs to be carefully assessed in further studies of sex addicts.
Academic text (2004) -
Lithium is indicated in the prevention of bipolar affective disorder, as it reduces both the number and severity of relapses and is effective in the treatment of moderate to severe mania.
Academic text (2012) -
Each winter, he and Karen lived up in the mountains, which got harder and harder psychologically, and though he had not been bothered by it when he was younger, Jerry believed in what the physicians were now calling "seasonal affective disorder," where a person in a gray climate becomes sadder during the light-stricken, shortened days of winter.
Fiction book (2001) -
Many people experience low energy and sadness during winter due to seasonal affective disorder.
Synonyms
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3.1
A health problem that affects how a person thinks, feels, or behaves and may need medical help
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A condition that causes problems with thinking, feeling, or behaving
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A mental condition that causes strong, long-lasting problems with feelings, not caused by clear brain damage
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7.4
A mental illness that causes big changes in mood and feeling
Antonyms
How Severe
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a mental disorder characterized by disturbance in mood or emotions' is directly and predictably derived from 'affective' (pertaining to feelings/emotions) + 'disorder' (a diagnosed condition). This is a compositional, non-idiomatic combination that has clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g. Spanish 'trastorno afectivo'), so a learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Affective disorder starts with affective, from the idea of 'feeling' or 'mood', and disorder, meaning a problem. The name describes a mental condition where a person's feelings or mood are badly disturbed, so the phrase points to problems with emotion.