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Definition of Dysthymia

1. Noun. Mild chronic depression. "I thought she had just been in a bad mood for thirty years, but the doctor called it dysthymia"

Definition of Dysthymia

1. Noun. A tendency to be depressed, without hope. ¹

2. Noun. (psychiatry) One form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least 2 years. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dysthymia

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Medical Definition of Dysthymia

1. A type of depression involving long- term, chronic symptoms that do not disable you, but keep you from functioning at full steam or from feeling good. Dysthymia is a less severe type of depression than what is considered a major depression. However, people with dysthymia may also sometimes experience major depressive episodes. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Dysthymia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wharton and Stillé's Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1882)
"Sadden dysthymia, the characteristic being the suddenness and rapidity of its approach. Symptoms : irritability, proneness to agitation, irascibility, ..."

2. 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)
"(rf) Depression or dysthymia Here the ordinary intellectual activities are accompanied by intense negative feeling-tones (discomfort and depression) leading ..."

3. A Monograph on Mental Unsoundness by Francis Wharton (1855)
"The consequent deliria arc the invariable effect of the dysthymia, ... dysthymia transitoria sen subita. Sudden dysthymia, the characteristic being the ..."

4. A Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1860)
"... with manifestations of dysthymia, which, however, are merely subordinate. ... without perceptible premonitory stages, and without previous dysthymia or ..."

5. Treatment of Depression edited by Cynthia D. Mulrow (2000)
"Are newer antidepressant agents more effective than placebo or older antidepressant agents for treating adult patients with dysthymia? ..."

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