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  • adjective Not depressed.

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non- +‎ depressed

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Examples

  • His results showed that depressed and nondepressed people did not differ in the frequency with which they had angry dreams.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • "Normal" nondepressed persons have what psychologists call "positive illusion"—that is, they possess a mildly high self-regard, a slightly inflated sense of how much they control the world around them.

    Depression in Command Nassir Ghaemi 2011

  • His results showed that depressed and nondepressed people did not differ in the frequency with which they had angry dreams.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • He also noticed that depressed patients were more negative and pessimistic about themselves and their performance than nondepressed patients.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Per NAMS: In contrast, the antidepressant bupropion Wellbutrin, which works in a different way from SSRIs, was found to improve sexual functioning compared with placebo in a small study of nondepressed women and men with desire and arousal difficulties.

    Staness Jonekos: How To Feel Sexy During Menopause Staness Jonekos 2011

  • He also noticed that depressed patients were more negative and pessimistic about themselves and their performance than nondepressed patients.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • And when the experimenters started to give subjects control over the light, the nondepressed people turned out to think that they deserved to win but not to lose regardless of the actual facts.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Even if the majority of the money spent on the drugs was for nondepressed people, he argued, the cost of untreated depression was so great that “treating everyone in the country with an SSRI would…provide a net benefit.”

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Also, children with depressed moms may be drowsy, passive, more temperamentally difficult, irritable, less able to tolerate separation, and more afraid or more anxious than children of nondepressed mothers.

    You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010

  • Doctors failed to spot depression in 20 percent of the cases; they diagnosed it in nearly 40 percent of nondepressed people.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

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