predepression

Adjective

pre-depression (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the era immediately before the depression.
2. Before a depression.
   • Murphy et al. (1988) found that, when the effect of physical illness was controlled, depressed elderly patients (particularly men) had a significantly higher four-year mortality, suggesting that the greater mortality in the depressed group was not due to differences of pre-depression physical...1994, Peter Burvill, “Part 4. Affective disorders [§] 8. The outcome of depressive illness in old age”, in Edmond Chiu, David Ames, editors, Functional Psychiatric Disorders of the Elderly, Cambridge...