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The phrase "head off depression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing strategies or actions taken to prevent or mitigate feelings of depression.
Example: "Regular exercise and a healthy diet can help head off depression before it takes hold."
Alternatives: "prevent depression" or "ward off depression".
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Someday medications might employ strategies that help promote such equilibrium to head off depression before it starts, as well as to treat it once it has set in.
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Back then, it was perfectly clear that some sort of government bailout was necessary to arrest the financial panic and head off a possible depression.
Second, the economic crisis that greeted Mr. Obama was deeper and more jolting than anyone had anticipated, and the White House thought it had little choice but to offer major spending proposals immediately aimed at heading off a depression, even without the benefit of a long public hearing.
They will care whether the February 2009 stimulus legislation succeeded in heading off a depression.
Could early depression treatment head off development of heart disease in the first place — or could better management of cardiac risks prevent depression?
What can be done to head off future depressions?
Hulu your head off.
I yelled my head off.
Maron laughs his head off.
Then we head off.
She was laughing her head off.
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