Meaning of depresso | Babel Free

Definitions

A depressive person.

colloquial, derogatory, sometimes

Equivalents

Examples

“I disagree. The character is NOT sympathetic. He is a depresso.”

“It took a lot of energy to "be good", and the easiest way to do so was to become⟳ withdrawn and depressed. A depresso isn't going out and about meeting people, you know⟳. :-)”

“Depression is an illness with a high death rate. One of the main aims of treating us depressos is to help⟳ us not kill⟳ ourselves from the despair that is all too often part of our depression.”

“this life reflecting stuff, i dunno man. isn't that what depressos do all the fucking time? it's what i do most of the time. the theories all sound⟳ so easy.”

“I'd heard of this before, a certain proportion of depressos who are "treatment resistant" have⟳ a borderline thyroid deficiency which doesn't show⟳ in the normal blood test⟳ but does in the more sophisticated one, in which case addition of thyroxine may suddenly kick-start the antidepressant into action.”

“Maybe there's an evolutionary advantage to carrying *some* of the genes, otherwise the thing would presumably have⟳ died out long ago. Creativity? There does seem to be a higher than average proportion of creative depressos (likewise homosexuals, likewise left handers).”

“1. should buck up and get⟳ over it”

“: I'm talking with a therapist but I don't know⟳ what to talk⟳ about. […] Guess⟳ that's normal, well, for a depressed person that is. yep, normal for a depresso”

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