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- noun Plural form of
depressive .
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Examples
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When he was still humanly alive in the 1990s Shane was depressed, but what separates emos from depressives is that depressives don’t wallow in their misery and they actually want to get better, so they seek medical assistance.
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When he was still humanly alive in the 1990s Shane was depressed, but what separates emos from depressives is that depressives don’t wallow in their misery and they actually want to get better, so they seek medical assistance.
[REVIEW] Wicked Game – Jeri Smith-Ready « Urban Fantasy Land 2008
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In the end, it does not matter what you call it or through which framework you view the Black Hole that I and other "depressives" are constantly scared of falling into.
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In the end, it does not matter what you call it or through which framework you view the Black Hole that I and other "depressives" are constantly scared of falling into.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Finally, many depressed men express their depression by acting out -- they become batterers and substance abusers -- and so we think of them as criminals rather than as depressives.
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We know our favorite comedians will turn out to be alcoholic perverts or suicidal depressives.
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What we get is “Being Max,” an exercise in re-entering the mild of a nine-year-old, and what we find there is a bit like being locked in a pscyh ward with a bunch of big, woolly manic-depressives.
The Bottom 5 – Peter Debruge’s Biggest Disappointments of 2009 – Collider.com 2010
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Research on depressives has found they may suffer from a deficit of self-deception.
Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature Kenny Ausubel 2011
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Why bother campaigning to legalise drugs when you could use your own airline to fly self-absorbed dopehead depressives out to Africa to gawp at poor people?
The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen 2012
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And this reversal reminds me of a comment delivered by another audience member I spoke with, that Von Trier is "A depressive who makes depressing movies for other depressives".
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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