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Depression

The terms '''depression''' and '''depress'''('''ed''') may refer to:

- Major depressive disorder (a.k.a. clinical depression or major depression), a specific diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association
    - Major depressive episode
    - Atypical depression, a cyclical sub-type of major depression where sleep, feeding and perception of pleasure are normal but there is a feeling of lethargy
    - Melancholic depression a sub-type of major depression characterized by an inability to feel pleasure combined with physical agitation, insomnia, or decreased appetite
    - Psychotic depression, a sub-type of major depression combined with psychotic or delusional perceptions
    - Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
- Depression (mood)
- Postpartum depression, a depressive episode occurring within a year of childbirth
- Dysthymia, a long-term low-grade depressive condition.
- Adjustment_disorder#Subtypes_.28DSM-IV.29|Adjustment disorder with depressed mood, previously known as Reactive depression.
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a depressed mood related to the seasons
- Depression is the 4th stage of the Kübler-Ross model (commonly known as the "stages of dying").:]

- Depression (physiology), a reduction in a biological variable or the function of an organ
- Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion

- Depression (geology), a sunken landform
- Depression (economics), an economic downturn more severe than a recession
- The Great Depression was a severe economic depression in the 1930s
- The Long Depression was an economic depression lasting between 1873–1896, known at the time as the ''Great Depression''.
- Depression (meteorology), a depression is an area of low atmospheric pressure
- Tropical depression (meteorology), a class of Tropical cyclone
- "Depress," a song by Eyehategod from the album ''In the Name of Suffering''
- "Depression," a song by Black Flag from the album ''Damaged (Black Flag album)|Damaged'' nds-nl:Depressie simple:Depression

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