How to Use depression in a Sentence

depression

noun
  • The photographs show depressions in the moon's surface.
  • After several years of an economic boom, it looks as though we may be heading toward a depression.
  • She has been undergoing treatment for severe depression.
  • Many people suffer from clinical depression for years before being diagnosed.
  • Tricyclic antidepressants are used to treat depression and other mental health conditions.
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Across millennia, music has been used to relieve a variety of ailments, from chronic pain to depression, anxiety, and simple boredom.
    Daniel Levitin, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Less fear and a saner point of view are the big step out of the depression.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The 1890s brought us the worst stock market crash and one of the deepest depressions up to that point.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The biome in your gut may be tied to your depression, a new study suggests.
    Joe Wituschek, BGR, 8 Dec. 2022
  • So why does my depression flare up in the run-up to the summer solstice?
    Kyle MacNeill, Vogue, 15 July 2024
  • That’s the worst part for me of anxiety and depression.
    Martha Ross, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The Serpent is the darkness, the depression, the struggling with drug use that still comes through in the music.
    SPIN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • West Virginia, meanwhile, places last on the list with three times the share of adult depression as Hawaii—the worst in the country.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
  • If water retention is present, the area will pit or show a depression in the skin.
    Laura Schober, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
  • As a teenager, my dad fell into a depression that would chase him his whole life.
    Rosalie Metro, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • His lyrics often dealt with themes of depression, substance abuse and death.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 2 July 2024
  • These are some of the most generic and common afflictions, all signs of stress, depression, and poor diet—just to name a few.
    Rachael Schultz, Men's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Another squashed the idea that folks in their later years are more prone to depression than younger adults and found that, in fact, the opposite was true.
    Bykells McPhillips, Fortune Well, 8 July 2023
  • And research has shown that this kind of social support can stave off depression.
    Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
  • At the end of that time, he was diagnosed with depression and memory loss.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 June 2023
  • Tyler had struggled with addiction and depression for most of his adult life.
    Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • Men’s depression, anxiety and drug overdose rates are on the rise.
    Erica Pandey, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The process, at times, has left him vacillating from tears of self-pity to intense anger and severe depression.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The female then builds the nest, scraping out a shallow hollow on the bare ground and shaping it by pressing her body into the depression.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • So, ward off the extra pounds and depression by putting on your favorite comedy flick tonight.
    Men's Health, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Sleepless and fighting depression, Day was at the breaking point.
    Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The prospect of imminent death might cause most people to plunge into depression.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Unhappiness and depression are at all-time highs among young adults, trend lines Twenge ties to the rise of smartphones and social media.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But love — or like, or whatever this might turn out to be — isn't a magic wand to be waved over clinical depression.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Rates of anxiety, depression and suicide among women are on the rise in Afghanistan since the group’s return to power, according to the UN.
    Zahid Mahmood, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023

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