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Clinical Depression

ISSN: 2572-0791

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Dysthymia

Dysthymia, also known as persistent depressive disorder (PDD), is a mood condition with the same cognitive and physical issues as depression but with signs that last longer. Robert Spitzer invented the idea as a substitute for the word 'depressive personality' in the late 1970s. Dysthymia is a serious state of chronic depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which persists for at least two years. Since dysthymia is a chronic condition, patients can experience symptoms several years before it is diagnosed if there is any diagnosis. Since dysthymia is a chronic condition, if diagnosis occurs at all, sufferers can experience symptoms for several years before being diagnosed. As a consequence, they may assume depression is part of their character, and they may not even speak to doctors, family members or friends about their symptoms. Dysthymia is substituted in DSM-5, with chronic depressive disorder.

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