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Six example sentences with depression, each labelled with its topic.
The clinic's questionnaire screens for depression by asking how often ordinary tasks have felt pointless over the past fortnight.
Psychology
Letters from the explorer's final winter describe a depression so heavy that he stopped writing for eleven weeks.
History
General practitioners now ask two short questions about depression at routine appointments, because many patients never raise the subject themselves.
Medicine
The diarist's depression seeps into the entries, which shrink to a single line for months at a time.
Literature
Doctors now recommend walking groups for mild depression, since regular movement lifts mood in many of the people who join.
Fitness
The songwriter has spoken openly about depression, and the quiet second album traces the months when nothing felt worth doing.
Music
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