depressoid

Resembling depression.

[…] of the difficulties in differentiating the "depressoid" picture of acute grief from the clinical depressions that may evolve later, […]

The major problem for the clinician involves the differentiation of those states which represent "real" depression from those "depressoid" states associated with grief.

Depressing or miserable.

My sense of humor is just as black as before. I still listen to the same depressoid music. Yet I'm much happier, and I'm open in ways that would have terrified me only a few years ago.

The slow cinema verite pacing of this film suited it's totally depressoid theme.

A depressed or miserable person.

[…] I have no time for prolonged sadness or self-pity because I am making a living. People care little about your failures and don't enjoy the company of a depressoid. […]

Those who think of the Cure as a band of depressoids playing dark music for adolescent introverts could not imagine how determined it was to let the sun shine into Nassau Coliseum Friday night.