Disorder in which five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure. Symptoms include: depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day; markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities most of the day, nearly every day; significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain; Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day; psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day; fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day; feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt; diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day; or recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt. (DSM-5)
    

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A depressive man standing by a country pond in the pouring rain - not helping his state of mind. Wood engraving, 1869.

Étude sur la mélancolie / [Paul Ferdinand Gachet].

Hercules, seated on a column, in a state of depression. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1781.

A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

Journeys with the black dog : inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel / edited by Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers & Gordon Parker.

Getting by / Sad Ghost Club.

Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Men and depression : helping him, helping you / [Theresa Francis-Cheung, Robin Grey].

Depression, Mental

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Journeys with the black dog : inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel / edited by Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers & Gordon Parker.

Getting by / Sad Ghost Club.

Antidotum melancholiæ vel, Schola curiositatis : omnibus hypochondriacis & atrabili laborantibus, sive fratribus spleneticis & melancholicis, vulgo denen Miltzbrüdern, aperta / a praenobili & expertissimo domino, Dn. Gaudioso von Fürvvitzhausen.

Men and depression : helping him, helping you / [Theresa Francis-Cheung, Robin Grey].

Depression.