The phrase "account of depression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a narrative or description related to experiences or observations of depression.
Example: "In her memoir, she provides a detailed account of depression and its impact on her daily life."
Alternatives: "narrative of depression" or "description of depression".
But it gains extra power from also being an account of depression.
Lessing interprets this tale differently, not in terms of the doom of gender, but as an account of depression and the "descent into hell" (another of her titles).
Instead it is a raw and brutally honest account of depression, as Liddiard grits his teeth and sinks into its depths.
"Losing Everything" is not a tidy, perfectly stitched account of depression or a crackup, like William Styron's "Darkness Visible" or Andrew Solomon's "Noonday Demon".
Threaded through the tale of how a blue-collar boy from New Jersey became a global rock star was a searing account of depression – both his father's, which governed his childhood, and his own.
From Pete Doherty's anxiety attacks before Libertines shows and Ezra Furman's songs about mental precariousness to Florence Welch's public account of depression, there has been no flaming glamour to these tales, only straight-talking stories of the distress and the drudgery of mental turmoil.
CES-D measures depressive symptoms experienced in the past week and, therefore, does not account for history of depression.
Those brain region and interconnectivity changes have been shown to be a direct outcome of hypercortisolaemia, and this pathway between environmental stressor-induced hyperactivation of the HPA axis and depression represents the neurobiological link between those stressors and the depressive symptomatology that is described in behavioural accounts of depression.
Among the recent welter of accounts of depression, this may be the one with the most easily understandable cause, but his helplessness moves him, at last, to reach for help.
"Nova" starts out by asking whether the chemistry and architecture of the brain can be tied to violent behavior in young men — with the answer being a solid "probably" — before moving on to nature versus nurture, actuarial models for predicting violence and anecdotal accounts of depression and psychopathy among boys.
She is also is quick to point out that most male accounts of depression are about episodes often caused by external agents (Alcohol, Halcyon) and are depicted as part of larger cultural currents; while women, for the great part, often feel responsible for their depressions.
