It also said that neither generation of drug might be effective in treating children and mildly depressed adults.

A mildly depressed level of consciousness may be classed as lethargy; someone in this state can be aroused with little difficulty.

The emotional upheaval has made them anxious, exhausted and mildly depressed, and it is hard to cheer them up.

Someone who is mildly depressed finds his everyday life to have lost its pleasure and interest.

It is recommended for tired, mildly depressed, convalescent and particularly old people.

For example, mildly depressed and tired old people used to be given amphetamines.

Several studies with mildly depressed men and women have shown that beginning regular aerobic exercise can lift the depression.

Mr Smith, lethargic, bit strange, mildly depressed, feels frustrated and emasculated.

The drugs gradually became an option for the mildly depressed, the bereaved, the stressed and the rejected.

A year later, 26 percent of those who had been identified as mildly depressed and assigned to a comparison group had gone on to develop major depression.