depressive
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Roughly 15 percent of U.S. men aged 21 to 25 years reported experiencing a major depressive episode in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Participants either had a clinical diagnosis of depression or were experiencing depressive symptoms but did not have other co-existing conditions.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026
He said he also has since found solace in Reddit, where he said users shared their experiences with manic and depressive episodes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
Old Hunter, an ex-police detective now working in private security, disturbs Chen’s depressive apathy with a request that he help find a man called X, a former philosophy professor who ran afoul of authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
And two of those days were for a depressive episode after a fall in Bowdle, South Dakota, essentially the halfway point.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
