[Time in depression].

A Meluzzi; A Gasco; G Francesetti; M Gecele

PubMed · 1749356

[Time in depression].

A Meluzzi·A Gasco·G Francesetti·M Gecele

Abstract

Subjective estimation of time varies according to age, to physical state and to the activity we are occupied with. The relationship between time and major depression can be considered from two different point of view. From a clinical-psychological point of view normal subjects with major depression estimate time intervals differently. Future, past and present change their meaning in major depression. These alterations cause important consequences in the cognitive structure of subjects with major depression and therefore influence depressive symptoms. On the other hand also the "biological time" is altered in major depression. Subjects with major depression suffer from many chronobiological alterations. The relationship between these two aspects are considered in the present report.

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