| Melancholic depression | Modern type depression |
Ages | Middle age (born before 1970) | Young (born after 1970) |
Temperaments | Shuchaku-kishitsu | Student apathy |
| Typusmelancholicus | Withdrawal neurosis |
| Avoidant-type depression | Modern-type of depression |
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| Immature-type depression |
Characters | Attachment to rules | Attachment to self without roles |
| Love for order, models | Feel distressed against rules/order |
| Sympathetic | Negative feelings toward order or model |
| Obsessive | Vague sense of almighty |
| Honest | Not a hard worker to begin with |
| Hard worker |
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Symptoms | Agitation or retardation | Fatigue and not feel good enough |
| Exhaustion and guilt | Avoidance and blame others |
| Well-prepared suicide | Impulsive suicidal action |
Therapeutic relationship | Resist to diagnosis of depression | Cooperate with diagnosis of depression |
| When recovered, learn from experience of depression | Tend to check depressive symptoms |
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| Hard to depart from diagnosis (like to stay in depression) |
Drug response | Usually good | Partial response |
| Complete remission |
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Cognition | I as a teacher to I as a “man who experienced depression” | Life style or depression |
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| Hard to depart from “I suffer from depression” |
Prognosis | Good response to rest and antidepressants | Become chronically ill only with rest and antidepressants |
| Ambivalent about change of environment | Change of environment rapidly improves symptoms |