Minor depression, or dysthymia, is the presence of a depressed mood for most of the day.
Less-severe forms of mental disorder include dysthymic disorder (also known as dysthymia), a chronically depressed mood accompanied by one or more other symptoms of depression, and cyclothymic disorder (also known as cyclothymia), marked by chronic, yet not severe, mood swings.
Major depression and other mood disorders such as dysthymia, bipolar disorder, and cyclothymia are common and very treatable forms of psychiatric problems.
Although dysthymia tends to be a milder form of depression, it is nevertheless persistent and distressing to the person experiencing it, especially when it interferes with the person's ability to conduct normal social or work activities.
Instead, she abided a chronic, low-level version of the illness — the diagnostic term was dysthymia — for the rest of her life.
Paradoxically, crying is more commonly associated with minor forms of depression, like dysthymia, than with major depression involving suicidal thoughts.
From a large body of research, they discarded trials that used washouts, as well as those that focused on dysthymia or subtypes of depression.
It was as if my mood had been goaded away from situational discontentedness into a dysthymia that seemed now to be heading into full-fledged depression".
—Following several flat weeks, the Dow once again closed on neither a high nor a low note, prompting speculation that it was suffering from a low-level mood disorder identified by its therapist as "dysthymia".
A reliable finding is that antidepressants work for chronic and recurrent mild depression, the condition called dysthymia.
That's the very nature of what the consultant referred to as dysthymia or chronic depression, and I was in the midst of a severe depressive episode.
