involutional depression

Definition

Or: involutional psychotic reaction / climacteric melancholia / involutional melancholia/ involutional psychosis , a state of depression and, in some instances, mild-to-severe anxiety associated with menopause or climacteric, characterized by feelings of worthlessness, pessimism, irritability, persistent insomnia, and, in some cases, hypochondria and paranoid delusions of persecution. Doc Johnson call it mooding: ' One of the effects of aging is mooding, mood-swings.' (Heard on the radio.)