Citations:depressoid
English citations of depressoid
Adjective: "resembling depression"
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- 1966, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 112, page 900:
- They also revealed more distinct psychiatric syndromes than the males, largely of a hysteroid/depressoid kind.
- 1982, Psychiatric Annals, Volume 16, page 304:
- […] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]
- 1987, Sidney Zisook, Biophysical Aspects of Bereavement, American Psychiatric Press (1987), →ISBN, page 183:
- The major problem for the clinician involves the differentiation of those states which represent "real" depression from those "depressoid" states associated with grief.
- 1993, Therese A. Rando, Treatment of Complicated Mourning, Research Press (1993), →ISBN, page 210:
- They recommend that such depressions be treated with antidepressants whether evolved from the depressoid state of acute grief or not.
Adjective: "(slang, pejorative) depressing or miserable"
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- 2007, Thrity Umrigar, If Today Be Sweet, Harper Perennial (2007), →ISBN, page 250:
- “The ski trip? Oh, God, what a depressoid bust. It turned out we didn't have reservations at the place we thought we did. […]
Noun: "(slang, pejorative) a depressed or miserable person"
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- 1982, Jean Rosenbaum & Veryl Rosenbaum, The Writer's Survival Guide, Writer's Digest Books (1982), →ISBN, page 140:
- […] 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. […]
- 1992, Wayne Robins, "The Cure: An Antidote For Gloom", Newsday, 19 May 1992:
- 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.
- 2011, Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Crown Archetype (2011), →ISBN, page 142:
- 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).