depressoid

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1. Resembling depression.

   They recommend that such depressions be treated with antidepressants whether evolved from the depressoid state of acute grief or not.

   1993, Therese A. Rando, Treatment of Complicated Mourning, Research Press, →ISBN, page 210

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   […] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]

   1982, Psychiatric Annals, volume 16, page 304

   The major problem for the clinician involves the differentiation of those states which represent "real" depression from those "depressoid" states associated with grief.

   1987, Sidney Zisook, Biophysical Aspects of Bereavement, American Psychiatric Press, →ISBN, page 183

comparative more depressoid · superlative most depressoid

1. derogatoryslangDepressing or miserable.

   The slow cinema verite pacing of this film suited it's totally depressoid theme.

   2002 April 21, Adam, “Re: Another survey - last movie.”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet)

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   My sense of humor is just as black as before. I still listen to the same depressoid music. Yet I'm much happier, and I'm open in ways that would have terrified me only a few years ago.

   1996 September 27, Diane Wilson, “Re: Goals?”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet)

   “The ski trip? Oh, God, what a depressoid bust. It turned out we didn't have reservations at the place we thought we did. […]

   2007, Thrity Umrigar, If Today Be Sweet, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 250

plural depressoids

1. derogatoryslangA depressed or miserable person.

   […] I have no time for prolonged sadness or self-pity because I am making a living. People care little about your failures and don't enjoy the company of a depressoid. […]

   1982, Jean Rosenbaum, Veryl Rosenbaum, The Writer's Survival Guide, Writer's Digest Books, →ISBN, page 140

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   Those who think of the Cure as a band of depressoids playing dark music for adolescent introverts could not imagine how determined it was to let the sun shine into Nassau Coliseum Friday night.

   1992 May 19, Wayne Robins, “The Cure: An Antidote For Gloom”, in Newsday

   It's always been incredibly challenging for me to put pen to page, because writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos (see every successful writer ever except Judy Blume).

   2011, Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 142