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Time passes slowly for patients with depressive state
Author(s) -
Kitamura T.,
Kumar R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1982.tb00865.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , neuroticism , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , rating scale , clinical psychology , feeling , developmental psychology , anxiety , personality , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Twenty‐three depressive inpatients and the same number of matched non‐psychiatric controls were examined on three occasions ‐ following admission, 14 days after, and 28 days after the admission ‐ by administering a self‐rating questionnaire of time awareness and Hamilton's Rating Scale for Depression (HRS). The patients were found to feel time passing slowly. This was correlated with the severity of depression expressed as the total HRS score. No significant differences emerged between diagnostic groups, namely endogenous depression, neurotic depression, and schizophrenia or paranoid state with depressive symptoms. Correlations of the time awareness with symptoms listed in the HRS also denied a specific relationship of time awareness to specific diagnoses. The subjective feeling of slow time flow reflects, therefore, the depth of depressive state in general, which is nevertheless not specific to any diagnostic subcategory.