adjustment disordernoun [ C or U ]
uk/əˈdʒʌst.mənt dɪˌsɔː.dər/us/əˈdʒʌst.mənt dɪˌsɔːr.dɚ/specializeda condition in which someone feels sad and hopeless as a result of a stressful event:
Many of the symptoms in an adjustment disorder overlap with those of a diagnosis of major depression.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
- ad
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- antisocial personality disorder
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- neurotic
- non compos mentis
- paranoia
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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