Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In pathology, affected with despondency; depressed in spirits; dejected.
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- noun A person diagnosed with
dysthymia , or dysthymicdepression . - adjective Of or pertaining to
dysthymia .
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Examples
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People who are chronically a little depressed -- gloomy, grumpy, low energy -- have "dysthymic disorder," a condition with its own risks of job and family problems, as well as episodes of major depression.
When Gray Days Signal a Problem Melinda Beck 2011
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just published the results of six studies, indicating that most adults with dysthymic or moderate depression experience no discernible improvemen ...
Robert David Jaffee: Medication Can Help The Severely Depressed 2010
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just published the results of six studies, indicating that most adults with dysthymic or moderate depression experience no discernible improvement from taking anti-depressants.
Robert David Jaffee: Medication Can Help The Severely Depressed 2010
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After their trip to the diagnosis wars, all that the pro-neurotics ended up with were lousy parentheses: anxiety disorder became anxiety disorder (or anxiety neurosis) and depressive neurosis became dysthymic disorder (or neurotic depression).
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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A similar process could lead to dysthymic disorder or adjustment disorder with depressed mood.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just published the results of six studies, indicating that most adults with dysthymic or moderate depression experience no discernible improvemen ...
Robert David Jaffee: Medication Can Help The Severely Depressed 2010
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What the cognitive therapists spell out, and what the psychiatrists only imply, is that depressed people, all depressed people—the melancholic and the neurotic, the endogenous and the reactive, the dysthymic and the majorly depressed—have in common their demoralization, their inability to see a limitless horizon, their despair over the possibility that their longings will never be satisfied.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010
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Patients who in the investigator's judgment presented with a clinically predominant Axis I disorder other than MDD (e.g. dysthymic disorder, eating disorders, Specific phobia, PTSD, OCD, Panic disorder, etc)
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The essential symptom for dysthymic disorder is an almost daily depressed mood for at least two years, but without the necessary criteria for a major depression.
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Assessing both ourselves and others, we find ourselves attending to strange categories: reactivity, aloneness, risk and stress, spectrum traits, dysthymic and hyperthymic personality.
Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004
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