No, depression is enough to distinguish from simple sadness, or grief, or other forms of sadness which are not pathological. Depression is already defined as an illness, and not simple sadness. Prefixing nonsense words does nothing to increase understanding of the illness of depression or of the normal forms of sadness that people experience.
Medical professionals do not ever call something clinical depression. They'll use words like reactive or endogenous etc.
The solution to people mis-using the term depression to apply it to things which are not depression is to stop people mis-using that term, not to invent other terms.
> When your sports team loses, you get depressed.
No, you are sad, fed-up, gutted, sick as a parrot, annoyed, frustrated, mournful, etc. You are not depressed, because depression is an illness.
The other problem with "clinical" is that it is widely used by cranks - see for example "clinical nutritionist".
Medical professionals do not ever call something clinical depression. They'll use words like reactive or endogenous etc.
The solution to people mis-using the term depression to apply it to things which are not depression is to stop people mis-using that term, not to invent other terms.
> When your sports team loses, you get depressed.
No, you are sad, fed-up, gutted, sick as a parrot, annoyed, frustrated, mournful, etc. You are not depressed, because depression is an illness.
The other problem with "clinical" is that it is widely used by cranks - see for example "clinical nutritionist".