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Epic card · Science
Major depressive disorder, an Epic card
Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 95
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 630,000
Ranked #236 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Introduced by a group of US clinicians in the mid-1970s, the term was adopted by the American Psychiatric Association for this symptom cluster under mood disorders in the 1980 version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and has become widely used since.
- The disorder causes the second-most years lived with disability, after lower back pain.
- The diagnosis of major depressive disorder is based on the person's experiences, and behavior reported by family or friends, and a mental status examination.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Major depressive disorder article was read about 630,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 95 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Major depressive disorder (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : GoldenArtists, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.







