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	Dysthymia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dysthymia or dysthymic disorder is a form of the mood disorder of depression characterized by a lack of enjoyment/pleasure in life that continues for at least two years.
		Dysthymia may seem a paradoxical disorder in that sufferers exhibit fairly mild symptoms on a day-to-day basis, however, over a life time it can have severe effects: high rates of suicide, work impairment, and social isolation.
		The term dysthymia originally referred to a sub-clinical psychotic condition, and the Greek roots of the term dysthymia (dys- (bad) and thymia) suggest the interpretation: "abnormal or disordered feelings".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dysthymia (752 words)

	Psychology Today's Diagnosis Dictionary: Dysthymia
		Dysthymia is a serious and disabling disorder that shares many symptoms with other forms of clinical depression.
		Specifically, dysthymia is characterized by depressed mood experienced most of the time for at least two years, along with at least two of the following symptoms: insomnia or excessive sleep, low energy or fatigue, low self-esteem, poor appetite or overeating, poor concentration or indecisiveness, and hopelessness.
		In dysthymia, these symptoms are not directly a result of a general medical condition or use of substances; in addition, they result in impaired functioning in work, social or personal areas.
	www.psychologytoday.com /conditions/dysthymia.html (847 words)

	Dysthymia, Minor Depression - Symptoms and Treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia is a disorder with similar, but longer-lasting and milder symptoms than clinical depression.
		Dysthymia is typically diagnosed in people who have been experiencing its symptoms almost all day every day for two years with no greater than a two month span without the symptoms.
		Dysthymia affects two to three women for every man, and is thought to begin in childhood and adolescence.
	www.healthyplace.com /communities/depression/dysthymia.asp (984 words)

	Dr. Koop - Dysthymia- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Dysthymia (or dysthymic disorder) is a chronic state of mild depression that lasts for years.
		Although it can occur at any age, dysthymia often begins earlier than major depression, in childhood, adolescence, or early adult life, Because of its usually early occurrence and its chronic nature, dysthymia seems to become embedded in a person's personality and to appear like a personality trait.
		The diagnosis of dysthymia is made from the pattern of mental and physical conditions observed.
	www.drkoop.com /encyclopedia/43/434.html (715 words)

	Dysthymia
		The Greek word dysthymia means “bad state of mind” or “ill humor.” As one of the two chief forms of clinical depression, it usually has fewer or less serious symptoms than major depression but lasts longer.
		Still, dysthymia is so similar to major depression that the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual also suggests, as a possibility for further investigation, an alternative definition with symptoms including anhedonia, social withdrawal, guilt, and irritability but not appetite or sleep disturbance.
		Nearly half of people with dysthymia have a symptom that also occurs in major depression, shortened REM latency — that is, they start rapid eye movement (vivid dreaming) sleep unusually early in the night.
	www.health.harvard.edu /newsweek/Dysthymia.htm (1838 words)

	Mood Disorders Society of Canada
		Dysthymia is a mild form of chronic depression, which leaves a person living a life where objectively they function reasonably but lack a sense of competence and self worth.
		Many people with dysthymia are unaware that they suffer from a treatable condition and will seek relief through alcohol and drugs, which only compounds their problem.
		The treatment for dysthymia is similar to the treatment of major depression and research shows that it requires just as aggressive a course and length of treatment.
	www.mooddisorderscanada.ca /depression/dysthymia.htm (802 words)

	Dysthymia - Dysthymic Disorder - Chronic Depression
		Dysthymia (sometimes misspelled as "disthymia"; chronic depression) is a chronic (long-lasting), mild form of depression.
		People who develop dysthymia when they are young often do not realize that they are ill; they think: "this is just the way I am." This belief can create a negative view of the world and of life that is difficult to change and that can lead to thoughts of, or attempts at, suicide.
		In adults, dysthymia is diagnosed when the symptoms continue for two or more years; in children or teens, the symptoms last for a year or more.
	www.depressionplace.com /dysthymia.html (1795 words)

	All About Depression: Diagnosis: Dysthymia
		People with dysthymia may appear to be chronically mildly depressed to the point that it seems to be a part of their personality.
		Because dysthymia may develop early in a person's life, it is not uncommon for someone with this condition to believe that it is normal to always feel depressed.
		Dysthymia is a condition that tends to develop early in a person's life, but most people delay approximately ten years before every seeking treatment.
	www.allaboutdepression.com /dia_04.html (805 words)

	Dysthymia - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Dysthymia is a milder but also more chronic form of depressive disorder than the better known major depression.
		Dysthymia can be diagnosed if depressive symptoms last more than 2 years and is accompanied by at least 2 other symptoms of depression.
		Dysthymia is associated with an increased risk for developing major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /d/dysthymia/intro.htm (352 words)

	Dysthymia - Adolescent Medicine - Health Library - Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia occurs in up to 4 percent of children, and in up to 8 percent of adolescents.
		For a diagnosis of dysthymia to be made, a depressed or irritable mood must persist for at least one year in children or adolescents and must be accompanied by at least two other major depressive symptoms (noted above).
		Dysthymia is associated with an increased risk for major depression if a child or adolescent does not receive appropriate treatment.
	www.chkd.org /Adolescent/dysthym.asp (639 words)

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		Symptoms of dysthymia are more subtle than those of major depression but they can undermine a person's ability to enjoy life and reach their full potential.
		People with dysthymia can go through their entire adult life not realizing they have a mood disorder and think their depressed mood is "just them".
		Once dysthymia has been diagnosed, medications used to treat the disorder are the same as those used for major depressive illness.
	www.canmat.org /depress/four/depressbottom.html (395 words)

	Dysthymia: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Classical dysthymia refers to "feeling" that something is a reality which is not a reality, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Approximately 6% of the population in the United States[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] has dysthymia.
		Dysthemia (commonly mistaken for dysthymia) is a psychological juxtaposition of balancing character traits; which create a withdrawal illness marked by...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dy/dysthymia.htm (645 words)

	Dysthymia - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia can be considered a paradoxical disorder in that its symptoms are fairly mild on a day-to-day basis, however, over a life time it can be a severe disorder with high rates of suicide, work impairment, and social isolation.
		However, a 2006 study involving 150 patients with minor depressive symptoms or dysthymia found that St. John's Wort extract was not effective for the patients with dysthymia.
		The term dysthymia originally referred to a sub-clinical psychotic condition, and the Greek roots of the term dysthymia suggest the interpretation: "abnormal or disordered feelings".
	www.psychcentral.com /psypsych/Dysthymia (793 words)

	Dysthymia
		Antidepressant therapy versus placebo therapy for patients with Dysthymia.
		A brief discussion of the causes and treatment of dysthymia.
		Abstracts of recent research reports on the treatment of dysthymia.
	www.psycom.net /depression.central.dysthymia.html (71 words)

	Health 24 - Depression, Dysthymia
		Dysthymia, like depression, can affect both genders and people of all ages, although it is more common among females, and onset in childhood and adolescence is particularly common.
		Dysthymia, like depression, is thought to be caused by a combination of biochemical, genetic and environmental factors.
		Many people with dysthymia, who are well aware they often feel sad or "down", don't recognise that they have an illness for which help is available, or even that it warrants seeking help.
	www.health24.com /medical/Condition_centres/777-792-807-1652.asp (239 words)

	Dysthymia - Depression symptoms, causes, and treatments including clinical and manic depression.
		In brief, Dysthymia is a depressive disorder in which irritable mood is observed by others for 2 years or more in adults and at least 1 year or more in children and adolescents.
		Dysthymia, deriving from the Greek root meaning “bad mind,” usually lasts longer and shows milder symptoms than depression.
		Dysthymia doesn't strike in episodes, unlike major depression, but is instead characterized by milder, persistent symptoms that may last for years.
	www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=38079 (695 words)

	Dysthymia
		Dysthymia is mild long-term depression that has lasted at least two years, or one-year in a child or teenager.
		They may have had dysthymia for so long that they may think that gloominess or crankiness, pessimism, low self-esteem, and indecisiveness, is part of their personality.
		Diagnosing Dysthymia: To meet the diagnostic criteria for dysthymia, in addition to a depressed mood, a person must have at least two of the symptoms listed below for at least two years (there may be short intervals of relief but not for more than 2 months.
	www.depression-management.info /dysthymia.html (688 words)

	Dysthymia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia is a chronic form of depression, characterized by humors that are constantly low, but as extreme as other types of depression.
		Dysthymia can happen only or jointly with one more a more severe depression or other psychiatric disorders of humor or.
		Dysthymia is evaluated taking a careful history of excessive humor and the other mental from the symptoms of the health the past several months.
	dysthymia.vparivalka.com (621 words)

	Dysthymia
		Dysthymia is a depressed mood that lasts for a long time.
		Although dysthymia tends to be milder than depression, it can severely affect an individual's ability to enjoy life.
		Dysthymia is usually diagnosed based on the description of your symptoms.
	healthqa.stbernards.info /html_healthgate/html/0_118/11889.php (318 words)

	Antidepressant Therapy, major depression,Dysthymic disorder
		Dysthymia consists of long-term chronic symptoms that do not disable, but keep one from feeling really good or from functioning at full steam.
		Although dysthymia implies having an inborn tendency to experience a depressed mood, it may also be caused by childhood trauma, adjustment problems during adolescence, difficult life transitions, the trauma of personal losses, unresolved life problems, and chronic stress.
		Unfortunately, because dysthymia is not as severe as clinical depression, the condition is often undiagnosed or dismissed as a case of psychosomatic illness.
	www.healingfromdepression.com /faces.htm (2977 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Ask the Experts: Medicine: Dysthymia, a disorder related to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia is also characterized by anhedonia (an inability to derive pleasure from events or stimuli previously found pleasurable).
		Dysthymia can be further broken down based on age at onset and vegetative symptoms (for instance, increased or decreased appetite, weight, sleep).
		Because dysthymia was conceptualized as a mild form of mood disorder, it was routinely treated with subthreshold doses of antidepressant, over inadequate durations of time.
	www.sciam.com /askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0000E046-989C-1CE2-93F6809EC5880000&catID=3 (560 words)

	info-on-depression.com - Dysthymia
		Dysthymia (the Greek roots of the word mean “bad state of mind” or “ill humor”) is a disorder with similar but longer-lasting and milder symptoms than clinical depression.
		Most people with dysthymia see only their family doctor, who may misdiagnose them, especially if the main complaints are physical.
		Unfortunately, mental health professionals are usually consulted only when major depression develops, although dysthymia alone may lead to alcoholism or suicide.
	www.info-on-depression.com /dysthymia.html (392 words)

	MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Dysthymia
		Dysthymia can occur alone or in conjunction with more severe depression or other mood or psychiatric disorders.
		The main symptom of dysthymia is low, dark, or sad mood nearly every day for at least 2 years.
		Dysthymia is evaluated by taking a careful history of mood and other mental health symptoms over the past several months.
	www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000918.htm (461 words)

	Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Dysthymia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dysthymia occurs in appropriately 0.6 to 1.7 percent of children, and in approximately 1.6 to 8 percent of adolescents.
		Dysthymia affects females twice as often as males.
		Because depression has shown to often co-exist with other psychiatric disorders, such as substance abuse or anxiety disorders, seeking early diagnosis and treatment is crucial to the recovery of your child.
	www.musckids.com /health_library/mentalhealth/dysthym.htm (541 words)

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