masked depression

Masked depression was associated with a child "acting out" an angry or sad mood.

Although masked depression can be found at any age, it has been observed more commonly after mid-life.

The method of headache prevention with antidepressants is uncertain, but does not result from treating masked depression.

According to some authors, masked depression is as frequent as overt depression.

"With the World War II generation there is almost a masked depression.

What is masked depression?

Current classifications: ICD-10 and DSM-IV do not contain the term "masked depression".

"Women often engage in behaviors that signal "masked depression," says psychologist Lara Honos-Webb, PhD, author of Listening to Depression.

Masked depression (MD) was a proposed form of atypical depression in which somatic symptoms or behavioural disturbances dominate the clinical picture and disguise the underlying affective disorder.

The Draw A Story assessment is used to screen for masked depression that may lead to suicide, and reactive or predatory aggression that may lead to violence in schools.

He notes that there was a time when every patient seemed to have "latent schizophrenia" and another time when everything in psychiatry seemed to be "masked depression", and he fears that the boundaries of the bipolar spectrum concept, including in application to children, are similarly expanding.