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Psychiatry often adopts words with common meanings and gives them changed or unfamiliar interpretations. In everyday language "depression" often refers to a transitory downturn in mood, perhaps due to something as trivial as your team losing. Psychiatry has no need of this sense of "depression", but uses the term to refer to an illness signifying a severe emotional disturbance. There are several terms which describe different kinds of depressive illnesses: In everyday language "depression" refers to any downturn in mood, which may be transitory and perhaps due to something as trivial as your team losing. In the field of ] depression can also have this meaning but more specifically refers to a ] when it has reached a severity and duration to warrant a]. There are several terms which describe different kinds of depressive illnesses:
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In everyday language "depression" refers to any downturn in mood, which may be transitory and perhaps due to something as trivial as your team losing. In the field of psychiatry depression can also have this meaning but more specifically refers to a mental illness when it has reached a severity and duration to warrant adiagnosis. There are several terms which describe different kinds of depressive illnesses:

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