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Re: mood reactivity » SLS

Posted by Elizabeth on November 9, 2001, at 12:55:45

In reply to Re: Atypical Depression Actually Very Typical » noa, posted by SLS on November 9, 2001, at 9:50:03

Scott --

I think that what you're describing would be considered mood-reactive depression. Mood reactivity means that your *mood* improves for a brief time (seconds, minutes, hours) -- not necessarily that the depression resolves completely. Remember that depressed mood is only one symptom of clinical depression.

From personal experience: I have non-mood-reactive depression and I don't *ever* tell jokes, laugh, etc. during a major depressive episode. I rarely even smile, and when I do it's pretty obvious to observers that it's forced. (I'm not very good at faking it.) Maybe someone here knows more about this than we do and can answer this question?

> Since I can't know what someone else experiences when they say that their mood is reactive to positive experiences, I could only assume that they meant that they experienced an improvement of their depression in the same way that I do when I respond momentarily to drug treatment.

What do you mean by that? ("momentarily?")

BTW...do your jokes get stupider when you're depressed? :-)

-elizabeth


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