endogenous depression

depression /de·pres·sion/ (de-presh´un)

1. a hollow or depressed area; downward or inward displacement.

2. a lowering or decrease of functional activity.

3. a mental state of altered mood characterized by feelings of sadness, despair, and discouragement.depres´sive

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agitated depression  major depressive disorder accompanied by more or less constant activity.

anaclitic depression  impairment of an infant's physical, social, and intellectual development resulting from absence of mothering.

congenital chondrosternal depression  congenital deformity with a deep, funnel-shaped depression in the anterior chest wall.

endogenous depression  a type caused by an intrinsic biological or somatic process rather than an environmental influence, in contrast to a reactive depression.

major depression  major depressive disorder.

neurotic depression  one that is not a psychotic depression (q.v.); used sometimes broadly to indicate any depression without psychotic features and sometimes more narrowly to denote only milder forms of depression.

pacchionian depressions  small pits on the internal cranium on either side of the groove for the superior sagittal sinus, occupied by the arachnoid granulations.

psychotic depression  strictly, major depressive disorder with psychotic features, such as hallucinations, delusions, mutism, or stupor; often used more broadly to cover all severe depressions causing gross impairment of social or occupational functioning.

reactive depression , situational depression a usually transient depression that is precipitated by a stressful life event or other environmental factor; cf. endogenous d.

unipolar depression  that unaccompanied by episodes of mania or hypomania, as in major depressive disorder or dysthymic disorder; the term is sometimes used to denote the former specifically.

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endogenous depression

n.

A group of symptoms that resemble depression but are not precipitated by a stressful experience, especially psychomotor agitation or retardation, insomnia and early morning awakening, weight loss, excessive guilt, and lack of reactivity to one's environment.

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endogenous depression

Melancholia Psychiatry A form of depression that occurs either de novo or without external events severe enough to warrant the degree of depression Clinical Pervasive sadness, hopelessness, loss of interest in daily activities; physical Sx–weight loss, insomnia, reduced libido; in ED, there may be an ↑ 'threshold' to stressful life events that requires little external input to initiate recurrence. See Depression. Cf Reactive depression.

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Patient discussion about endogenous depression.

Q. How long does it take to get rid of depression after taking medication? my husband in major depression from the past one month . Now he is hospitalized and taking medication every day the last two weeks. Even now he seems to be depressed and he tried for suicide twice he always thought of suicide and he doesn’t want to return to work .is it possible to recover from depression after one month & to go to job again . i am really worried about his suicidal ideation. please help me .

A. Probably no two people are exactly alike. When I was first diagnosed many years ago, and started taking Prozac at the minimum dose, my doctor told me it would take about 4 weeks for the medication to build up in my body. But there were noticeabe effects within a few weeks. It was kind of weird for me at first. The medicine made it so I was able to be more expressive and less fearful of what others who had previously regularly "pushed my button". They were not able to do anymore. My wife thought the medicine was making me "crazy" and wanted me to stop taking it. But my doctor explained that it really was not that way and that I was finally after so many years beginning to express myself and not holding back and keeping it all in. I trusted my doctor and kept on the medication and it did work.
There probably will not be an instant transformation. It may very well take years to get better. I probably be on my current medicine, Effexor, for the rest of my life. But it

Q. What damage does depression do to the brain and how can you treat it? How does it affect your chemical balance, your brain? Is it critical or will be critical later in life? I just read on Yahoo News that Clinical stress could increase risk of Alzheimer's later in life. Does age matter like during teen years? I had depression and begun running. I noticed that I have a hard time focusing and absorbing information. I forgot a lot of things. All my brain seems to focus on is emotions. Can I change that? The running has made me feel a lot better afterwards

A. What you describe is considered as an attention disorder. But it’s very understandable while being on a depression episode. If it’s not on a depression episode- then it was strange… I suffer from depression for the last 12 years and I’m not sure I saw a real change in my cognitive abilities. But I’m not so sure…good idea about the running! it releases Endorphins which elevate mood.

Q. What's the difference between the depressions of the bipolar disorder and clinical depression? How can I differentiate between the two? Thanks

A. When it persists past several major bouts, it is then called "chronic" and yes, from one who has it, it can go on for many years. You keep hoping that it won't come back but it hits you and you never seem to know why. After many good days, you think its gone and life will be good again and you get hope for getting off the medicine, and then out of no where, whamm, bamm and it knocks you down again, sometimes really down there with your face in the dirt. I just keep taking my medicine, pray alot, and stay away from stressful things.