Major depressive disorder

major depressive disorder

Mood disorder characterized by persistent low mood, motivation, and self-esteem, accompanied by loss of interest or pleasure and impairment of functioning

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities. Introduced by a group of US clinicians in the mid-1970s, the term was adopted by the American Psychiatric Association for this symptom cluster under mood disorders in the 1980 version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), and has become widely used since. The disorder causes the second-most years lived with disability, after lower back pain.

Also known as...recurrent depressive disorder, major depression, unipolar depression, MDD, recurrent major depression, single major depressive episode, recurrent major depression in complete remission, recurrent major depressive episodes, major depression disorder, clinical depression, and depression
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