What is neurotic depression?

Neurotic depression is a typical mental disorder that has no such demonstrable organic cause. A patient suffering from neurotic depression might have an unimpaired reality analysis and insight, which usually makes him/her fantasize about the external world.

Neurotic depression, also known as dysthymia or dysthymic disorder is caused due to some unknown reasons. As the condition isn’t psychotic in nature, alike clinical depression or any other types of depression disorder, the cause of the condition has not been identified as yet.
While the psychotic state tends to isolate the patient from reality while affecting the different bodily functions and leading to impairment, the neurotic type might not be so severe, but can be interfering enough to cause different signs and symptoms.
Neurotic depression is typically triggered by the sense of despair and hopeless in patients. This depression type is relatively more common in women than in men. The illness is characterized by a sudden change in appetite (dramatic changes, such as overeating and not eating at all), lower energy levels, increased lethargy, problems in concentrating, low self esteem and loathsome thoughts and other such self-created thoughts and saddening feelings.