Posted by SLS on September 11, 2012, at 21:54:59
In reply to Re: Different types of depression, posted by jono_in_adelaide on September 11, 2012, at 21:45:42
> I think they are saying that melancholic depression is defined by the symptoms of low mood, lack of happiness, anxiety etc PLUS psychomotor retardation.
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> I'd say suicide idealisation would be one of the keys for me - if you're seriously thinking of offing your self, then you probably have a melancholic depression, if you just if you have vauge thoughts that "I'd be better off dead" you might only have a mild depression.
The most severe case of depression I ever saw was of a young woman with melancholic depression who presented with severe psychomotor retardation. She moved agonizingly slowly when she was asked by her mother to fetch me a paper-towel. It was a horrific sight. She killed herself.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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