The phrase "mildly depressed" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common way to describe a person's state of mind or emotions. Example: After losing his job, John was feeling mildly depressed for a few weeks before he started actively searching for a new one.
Maternal satisfaction with analgesia and neonatal feeding behaviour (normal, mildly depressed, severely depressed) will be analysed using multinomial logistic regression.
The scores fall into the following four ranges: 20 44 normal; 45 59 mildly depressed; 60 69 moderately depressed; and 70 and above severely depressed.
Thus 1 = "normal, not depressed;" 2 = "on the border of depression;" 3 = mildly depressed;" 4 = "moderately depressed;" 5 = "notably depressed;" 6 = "severely depressed," 7 = "extremely depressed".
At best, a placebo may give the patient a temporary boost if he is mildly depressed, but in a seriously depressed patient, it is right in more ways than one to call it a dummy pill.
In some cases, mildly depressed individuals can work through their depression and eliminate depressive symptoms with talk therapy alone.
Psychotically depressed patients responded better (88.9% vs. 81.5% for severely depressed and 72.8% for mildly depressed, p < 0.001).
The Ham-D scores indicated that 14 (14.4%) were severely depressed, 14 (14.4%) were experiencing moderate depressive symptoms, 44 (45.4%) were mildly depressed, and the remainder were asymptomatic.
If this result is typical, many subjects labeled mildly depressed in the F.D.A. data don't have depression and might well respond to placebos as readily as to antidepressants.
Patients who are mildly depressed, for example, might have been lumped in with severely depressed patients or with obsessive-compulsives and schizophrenics.
Women were classified as minimally or mildly depressed (BDI-II score < 20) and moderately or severely depressed (BDI-II score ≥ 20).
CLINICAL depression is a serious ailment, but almost everyone gets mildly depressed from time to time.
