For this study we planned a total of 30 patients with episodic depression, 30 patients with a chronic depressive disorder and 30 healthy volunteers.
For instance, Rowe (1971) described the case of a chronic depressive patient who faced the dilemma between staying depressed (associated in her construct system with 'being human') or change, and become a 'destructive' or 'unpleasant' person (according to her own vision).
In a prospective cohort study excessive day time sleepiness predicted the incidence of depression, appearing as a vulnerability factor for acute and chronic depressive episodes.
One such diagnosis is adjustment disorder, which is a diagnosis given in the presence of chronic depressive or anxious symptomatology following a stressful life event (if diagnostic criteria for depression or anxiety disorders are not present).
Despite this there are no randomised controlled trials of community based service delivery interventions delivering both algorithm based pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy for patients with chronic depressive disorder in secondary care mental health services who remain moderately or severely depressed after six months treatment.
He was a serious, sometimes suicidal, chronic depressive.
Loneliness could attract a diagnosis of chronic depressive disorder, and so could unhappiness following bereavement.
She talks about her gentile husband who is supposedly a chronic depressive.
Last, the author and chronic depressive Andrew Solomon spoke from experience when he deplored stigmatizing the ill.
A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.
But it's also tinged, fascinatingly, with darkness: Thomas was a chronic depressive, and his demons make brief disturbing appearances here, glaring out from among the honeysuckle and the whitebeams.
