masked depression
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A form of depression that occurs in adolescents, who deal with depression through denial, somatization—headaches, abdominal or other pain—or ‘acting out’—truancy, substance abuse, multiple accidentsSegen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
masked depression
Psychology A form of depression that occurs in adolescents, who deal with depression through denial, somatization–
headaches, abdominal or other pain, or 'acting out'–truancy, substance abuse, multiple accidentsMcGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The
masked depression selected for this study was materialistic depression.
In our experience, just as with the nonpsychiatric TCA-responsive conditions described by Broadhead et al, primary care physicians are sensitive to potentially TCA-responsive psychiatric conditions such as a
masked depression or depressions with somatic presentations such as fatigue or insomia.
Then if all the results are fine, go on to consider whether retirement might have produced a "
masked depression", or "lingering grief", since you've had to give up your workplace identity.
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