📚 noun • entry_id 17568
dysthymia
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distimia
A tendency to be depressed, without hope.
Other [subway] passengers showed no outward signs of distress. They appeared to have homes and money and good health, they carried briefcases or bags. … Their faces didn't cave in…
distimia
A form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least two years.
A decade ago most psychiatrists would have been puzzled to find a chapter on dysthymia in a book about severe depressive disorders. They would have characterized this chronic form…
For diagnostic, research, and treatment reasons, a distinction should always be made between the milder dysthymias, atypical and hysteroid depressions, and the more serious major d…
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