Talk:Melancholic depression

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Isn't this basically the same thing as Dysthymia? --Serph 15:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When it goes on for over two years, I think so. 76.180.120.161 06:47, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, according to

Major Depressive Episode which is more severe than the criteria for Dysthymia. By the definitions given in DSM-IV the Melacholic specifier cannot be applied to Dysthymia. 194.83.139.177 (talk) 13:30, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply

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I would elaborate on the symptoms of the depression and on the treatment. Different people have different symptoms. I would go through some studies/experiments and find out the outcome and put them in the article. Some examples of the medicines that can help. Or what about therapy? --Kelsey.bayerl (talk) 00:15, 19 September 2011 (UTC)Kelsey.Bayerl[reply]

Kelsey I think you did a really good job on this assignment and I also think that your suggestions are very thought out and I would agree with you that the article would very much help people out more with the things you are talking about. Stabers (talk) 03:33, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kelsey, after reading what you added to this artical i thought it was very good. There are only a few things i would fix. "Depression is twice as common in women as it is in men. Major depression is most often genetic." This really isnt helpful to the artical unless you were generalizing on general depression. On that note maybe you should put a link in there to general depression to make sure your reader knows what depresion acctually is before going on to what a specific depression is. And when i cliced on your referance i didnt see where you got your information from, but i could have done that wrong myself. --Jordie09 (talk) 21:45, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. No big deal, the DSM is mostly ridiculous. 205.232.191.21 (talk) 14:32, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Pinging @Casliber, @Markworthen, @Johnbod:

Since, in a different era, we reached some sort of broad, informal consensus (I think) in this historical thread (2019) that

a) 'Melancholic depression' is not a current thing, and

b) it's probably better to merge this page with Melancholia,

Melancholic depression appears to have been part of an intriguingly instructive education assignment on communicating the "fundamentals[??] of epidemiology".

Can we now perhaps start to get this lifted before gravity inevitably weighs in again?

(It's beginning to get me down :) 86.177.202.139 (talk) 20:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ok hold my beer...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:49, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the merge proposal you introduced on the Melancholia talk page appear on this talk page too? I thought it was automatic. Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/him] 19:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]