Major Depressive Episode — definition

1. major depressive episode (Noun)

1 definition

major depressive episode (Noun) — (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction.

3 types of
clinical depression depression depressive disorder
2 types
involutional depression unipolar depression