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What does depression mean?
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depression

A depression is when a person's feelings are very sad and unhappy. Van Gogh suffered from depression for a long time before he killed himself. A depression is a low point on a surface. There was a small depression in the ground where the rock had been. A depression is when the economy slows down by a lot. The business community is worried that the oil problems could lead to a depression.

depression

a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment (= natural depression) a sunken or depressed geological formation sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy pushing down depression of the space bar on the typewriter (= impression) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) (= low) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

Depression

a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

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Great Depression

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Simple sentences

She sometimes goes into a mood of depression.
Poor personal hygiene can be a sign of depression.
Long-term unemployed people can suffer from depression.
The report states that there will be a depression.
The economist anticipated a prolonged depression.
I suffer from depression during the wintertime.
The Japanese economy is in depression.
He was in a mood of depression.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
To one of the head psychologists, the depression criteria didn't quite characterize this group of girls.
I was no longer myself and had severe depression.
Depression is common among young adults who have Asperger syndrome.
Mary is showing signs of severe depression.
Culture shock tends to move through four different stages: wonder (or the honeymoon period), frustration, depression and acceptance.
Tom has periods of debilitating depression followed by bursts of manic activity.
After her death, he sunk into depression.
Tom is showing signs of severe depression.
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
A business cycle is a recurring succession of periods of prosperity and periods of depression.
The economy is in a slight depression.
I suffer from depression during the winter.
She's in a depression.
Mary suffered from severe postnatal depression after the birth of her first child.
Tom suffered from depression.
Tom can't tell the difference between melancholy and depression.
Mary's realisation that she was gay plunged her into a reactive depression.

Movie subtitles

Bye! It's important to deal with one's feelings head-on, because repressed feelings lead to depression.
Repression equals depression.
Man. the French really know how to make depression look sexy.
There is nothing sexy about depression, Rebecca.
Anxiety, depression. how about you see a doctor first?
Your mother suffered clinical depression.
How did Evan handle the depression she suffered?
Of course, this Depression isn't going to last forever.
Not with this depression.
Just because there's a depression on, some folks think I'll stand for it.
This is purely a case of manic depression.
Your Honor, this is decidedly a case of manic depression.
Then, in the first year of the Great Depression a Kane paper closes.
This depression is temporary.
What? Admin clearly thinks that a few carnival games will stop everyone's depression.
My sister struggles with depression and she always describes it as a veil. something that gets between her real self and the world.
Say, pal, did you ever hear of a depression?
But the Great Depression had taken its toll on Universal, as well as most of the other studios, and they were in dire straits.
Remember, this was the worst of times for the Great Depression. This is Rudy Behlmer speaking.
Your Honour, this is decidedly a case of manic depression.
To say no to a man like that, a man who wasn't even hit by the Depression.
I saw the Depression coming and he didn't.
Take during the Depression, for instance.
For 30 years, I was a bank clerk, until the Depression of 1930, when I found myself unemployed.
Along came the Depression and he was one of the first to go.
It's important to deal with one's feelings head-on, because repressed feelings lead to depression.
By the way, has anyone here heard about the depression?
What depression?
Sobbing sounds downstairs And cold and depression in the studio.
Next year, in my opinion, we'll see widespread depression and unemployment.
That I'm ashamed to go home. That I'm sick with pride and depression.

News and current affairs

Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
The state of economic knowledge was just as bad in the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock market crash.
In the 1920's, some warned about an overpriced stock market, but they did not predict a decade-long depression affecting the entire economy.
But there had been no other examples since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Indeed, it was this dynamic - against which John Maynard Keynes fought - that made the Great Depression of the 1930's so grim.
America's household savings rate was at levels not seen since the Great Depression, either negative or zero.
Then came the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and another 30 years of progressive politics, from the 1930's to the 1960's.
The first explicit scheme was introduced in America after the Great Depression and initially seemed an unmitigated success.
The best news of the year is that, at long last, the Continent's consumers seem to be emerging from their long depression.
A series of vicious cycles that one had hoped had vanished with the end of the Great Depression have shown themselves to be relevant today.
They find that if you control for educational attainment and skills, financial jobs were highly paid until the Great Depression of the 1930s, higher than the quality of the people who held the jobs would imply.
Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving Fisher - made public statements anticipating the Great Depression.
So, while the US may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near-depression.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it can happen anywhere.
The first is that, beyond the many layers of depression and distrust in France, there is potential for a new and collective departure.
To be sure, we have also seen patients seeking treatment for depression who really did have bipolar disorder.
BERKELEY - The United States continues to recover from its deepest economic slump since the Great Depression, but the pace of recovery remains frustratingly slow.
After all, World War II is widely thought to have helped lift the global economy out of the Great Depression.
The US Great Depression of the 1930's is another case in point.
The first eleven months of the recession that followed were as severe as the first eleven months of the Great Depression that started in 1929.
John Maynard Keynes, an architect of Bretton Woods, believed that the true lesson of the failures of the Depression-era 1930's lay precisely in the character of the large and chaotic 1933 London World Economic Conference.

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