Melancholic depression
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Melancholic depression, or 'depression with melancholic features', is a DSM-IV subtype of major depression requiring at least one of the following symptoms: anhedonia (the inability to find pleasure in positive things), or lack of mood reactivity (i.e. mood does not improve in response to positive events) and at least three of the following: depression that is subjectively different from grief or loss, severe weight loss or loss of appetite, psychomotor agitation or retardation, early morning awakening, guilt that is excessive, and worse mood in the morning. Melancholic features apply to an episode of depression that occurs as part of either major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder I or II.
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