Neurotic depression
Neurotic depression – is a type of depression distinguished by depressive symptoms in someone who is emotionally unstable. Neurotic depression also may be defined as a depression that occurs in the context of a long-standing history of personality difficulties or neurotic symptoms. Neurotic depression presents as depression, but with the added discomfort of a ruminative loop of negative and anxious thoughts. These thoughts then influence someone’s behavior, perception, and processing of emotions and experiences, often leading to general chaos, anxious avoidance, internalization, and disorientation. Neurotic depression is evidently a function of conditioned anxiety response habits that finds a paradigm in experimental neuroses, not in learned helplessness. This form of depression is often exhibited in individuals suffering from major personality disorders, neuroticism, and substance use disorders.
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