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What is Masked depression and explain in detail?
Masked depression (MD) was a proposed form of atypical depression in which somatic symptoms or behavioural disturbances dominate the clinical picture and disguise the underlying affective disorder. The concept is not currently supported by the mental health profession.

Clinical manifestations
Somatic manifestations of MD are distinguished by an extreme diversity: 110  and include headaches, back pain, abdominal pain etc. Pathological behaviour masking depression may take the form of compulsive gambling, compulsive work, changes in arousal or orgasmic function, decreased libido or, on the contrary, impulsive sexual behaviour, alcoholism, or drug addiction.

Dispute about the concept
MD has been variously described as "depression sine [without] depression", "latent" depression, "vegetative depression", "hidden" or "masked" depression, "larvate" or "somatisation depression", "depressive equivalents" etc. Most investigators, especially those in the German-speaking countries, assumed masked depression (German: die larvierte Depression) to be endogenous depression. The term was largely used in the 1970s and 1980s, but at the end of the 20th century there was a decline in interest in the study of masked depression