Dysthymic Sentence Examples

Individuals with dysthymic disorder may experience a change in sleeping and eating patterns, low self-esteem, fatigue, trouble concentrating, and feelings of hopelessness.

Substance abuse, panic disorders, personality disorders, social phobias, and other psychiatric conditions also are found in many dysthymic patients.

Someone can actually suffer from Dysthymic Disorder for years.

Dysthymic disorder, characterized by a chronic but mild state of depression lasting two years or more, affects 1.5 percent of the U.S. population, or 5.7 million adults, each year.

While major depressive episodes may be acute (intense but short-lived), dysthymic disorder is an ongoing, chronic depression that lasts two or more years (one or more years in children) and has an average duration of 16 years.

The mild to moderate depression of dysthymic disorder may rise and fall in intensity, and those afflicted with the disorder may experience some periods of normal, non-depressed mood of up to two months in length.

Its onset is gradual, and dysthymic patients may not be able to pinpoint exactly when they started feeling depressed.

Parents of children suffering from dysthymic disorder may notice their child experience a fall in grades and a lack of interest in extracurricular activities that were once enjoyable.

Up to 70 percent of dysthymic patients have both dysthymic disorder and major depressive disorder, known as double depression.

The connection between dysthymic disorder and these medical conditions is unclear, but it may be related to the way the medical condition and/or its pharmacological treatment affects neurotransmitters.

Dysthymic disorder can lengthen or complicate the recovery of patients also suffering from medical conditions.

Major depressive and dysthymic disorders are typically treated with antidepressants or psychosocial therapy.

Some clinicians prefer SSRIs for treatment of dysthymic disorder.