Depressive Distress
Dimension 418 of 1,100 · Health Lens
Depressive Distress measures the presence and severity of depressed mood, hopelessness, low self-worth, emotional strain, and reduced capacity to function. It encompasses expressions of feeling low, losing interest or pleasure, being overwhelmed, and experiencing emotional suffering that interferes with daily life.
evidence final name · Strengths Difficulties
Minimal Depressive Distress
Expressions activating this band contain little or no clear evidence of depressed mood or emotional suffering, and are often neutral, administrative, or otherwise unrelated to personal emotional state.
Moderate Depressive Distress
Expressions activating this band describe feeling unhappy, low, or emotionally troubled, often with diminished interest, restlessness, or some difficulty managing problems and daily activities.
Severe Depressive Distress
Expressions activating this band convey intense depressed mood marked by crying, hopelessness, self-devaluation, pervasive strain, and the sense that ordinary demands require great effort or feel overwhelming.
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Lower Strengths Difficulties: Expressions show no meaningful strengths difficulties content. The proxy is effectively absent. Expressions activating this band are unrelated to strengths difficulties.
Moderate Strengths Difficulties: Strengths difficulties is clearly present at this level. This is the first band where strengths difficulties becomes detectable. Expressions activating this band reflect strengths difficulties at this level of intensity.
Higher Strengths Difficulties: Strengths difficulties is experienced here at a level consistent with formal clinical assessment and disorder-relevant measurement. Unlike the band below, where strengths difficulties was characterized by a general form, the proxy here has shifted in character. The facets that dominated at lower levels have receded. Expressions activating this band likely reflect strengths difficulties at a clinical or disorder-relevant level.