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Definition of Cyclothymia
1. Noun. A mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time.
Generic synonyms: Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, Manic Depressive Illness, Manic-depressive Psychosis
Derivative terms: Cyclothymic
Definition of Cyclothymia
1. Noun. (medicine) a chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cyclothymia
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Medical Definition of Cyclothymia
1. A mental disorder characterised by marked swings of mood from depression to hypomania but not to the degree that occurs in bipolar disorder. Origin: cyclo-+ G. Thymos, rage (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclothymia
Literary usage of Cyclothymia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"cyclothymia can be described as a mild form of bipolar disorder, but with more
... cyclothymia includes multiple hypomanic episodes and periods of depressed ..."
2. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"As soon as the medical diagnosis clearly pointed to cyclothymia instead of
psychoneurosis, ... The differential medical diagnosis betwixt cyclothymia and ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"... but the unusual character of the case is emphasized by consideration of the
known facts about cyclothymia. In this disorder emotional disturbance is the ..."
4. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases by Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health, Walter Elmore Fernald, George Milton Kline, Elmer Ernest Southard, Douglas Armour Thom, George L. Wallace (1919)
"If now there were a true cyclothymia (that is, manic-depressive) that closely
resembled a schizophrenia, we should be forced to dub it "cyclothymia ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... the single cycles repeating themselves, after shorter or longer free intervals,
throughout the whole life-time (circular insanity, or cyclothymia). ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"The second part deals with pathogeny and the cyclothymia traits in various mental
states and in somatic diseases, especially its relations to gout and ..."
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