Meaning of pre-depression | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to the era immediately before the depression.
   not-comparable
2. Before a depression.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Murphy et al. (1988) found that, when the effect of physical illness was controlled, depressed elderly patients (particularly men) had a significantly higher four-year mortality, suggesting that the greater mortality in the depressed group was not due to differences of pre-depression physical health alone.”

“A child who has dysthymia, or chronic mild depression, captured in the persistent depressive disorder diagnosis in DSM-5, a milder but more chronic set of symptoms over a period of at least 12 months, may not have the cognitive-developmental awareness that their depressive symptoms are different from the emotions of other children, or even their own pre-depression life.”

“When recovering or recovered from depression, as the sources I consider highlight, some people seem to have a heightened appreciation of beauty, both when compared to when they were depressed, and also when compared to their pre-depression state.”

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