This phase will usually be followed by a depressive state.

Just then, Oswald came to see him and was a bit surprised by the dog's depressive state.

He thought back to his depressive state in the city and told himself that this was exactly what he had been seeking.

It can be self-perpetuating and lead to the fearful depressive state in which you find yourself.

Paintings reflect his depressive state and are very dark.

During a depressive state, things may seem so hopeless that life doesn't seem worth living.

However, there were no changes in the depressive state of the patients that could be measured with the Hamilton depression scale.

In three or four days this manic will have sagged back to a depressive state.

All this time Wiccan was in a depressive state.

His mother died in 1940 and Michael was alone in the world, slowly falling into a deeply depressive state.

Lately, her depressive state has included suicidal thoughts.

The seeking of negative feedback in order to self-verify has thus been argued to maintain a depressive state.

"My depressive state is getting worse, and I am constantly hearing voices, shouting and seeing lines," he wrote of that period.

Then Mr. Lamartine's broadcast put me in a depressive state.

When the depressive state has lasted for several years, it may be difficult to distinguish between a person's usual functioning and the mood disturbance.

The effect of this is enormous on Silver who goes through a lengthy manic episode followed by a sudden depressive state.

"Depressive state: I consider this patient cannot tolerate his duty, and it is necessary to keep him resting as long as one month."

These episodes alternate with a depressive state.

Falling into a depressive state, she begins having nightmares of Marik sending her to the shadow realm.

LSD is thus the most inappropriate means imaginable for curing a depressive state.

"I went through a depressive state of fear," he says, triggered in part by the thought of complications like blindness and amputation.

January 1997: A female student in depressive state roamed the streets of Tirana with a grenade in her hand.

A man's first experience with bipolar disorder may be in a manic state; women tend to first experience a depressive state.

He sinks into a depressive state, so his mother (Lillian Hurst) enters him into a psychiatric institution.