Jamal is experiencing a major depressive episode that appears to have begun three weeks ago. He is miserable and suffers from at least five symptoms of depression. No unusually stressful events have occurred in the past year. Based on these data, the diagnosis would be:
A) postpartum depression.
B) reactive depression.
C) exogenous depression.
D) endogenous depression.

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The absence of any identifiable external events or stressors suggests that the depression is endogenous, which refers to depression that arises from within the individual rather than in response to external stressors.

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