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The phrase "low grade depression" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person or persons having depressive symptoms that are less severe than major depressive disorder. For example: "Sally has been experiencing low grade depression since her divorce last year."
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But how many of us really share what's at the core of this unease, this low grade depression?
Like a good teacher, I have employed various strategies to keep the constant low grade depression, triggered by losing both my mother and sister within an 18-month span, from erupting to a fever pitch and completely consuming me.
Obviously physical exercise, yoga and such can help stimulate endorphins and create a feeling of well-being, but that alone doesn't seem to completely address the kind of low grade depression many people appear to be facing these days.
Since patients with depression spend so much time in low grade depression it would seem as an important task to improve measurement in the lower range of severity.
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Dysthymia is a term used to describe chronic low-grade depression and in ICD-10 requires that four or more depressive symptoms are present for at least two years [ 12].
"YOU feel a low-grade depression," he says.
Justice Price found Naden suffered low-grade depression and a personality disorder.
This has led to 'pan-anhedonia' – low-grade depression all over the place.
A low-grade depression had settled over her life and marriage.
Lassitude, aloofness, low-grade depression, coupled with a healthy respect for money, have gradually steered me to the obvious vocation.
And this means that there's remarkably little political pressure to end our continuing, if low-grade, depression.
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