People who are chronically a little depressed -- gloomy, grumpy, low energy -- have "dysthymic disorder," a condition with its own risks of job and family problems, as well as episodes of major depression. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)
After their trip to the diagnosis wars, all that the pro-neurotics ended up with were lousy parentheses: anxiety disorder became anxiety disorder (or anxiety neurosis) and depressive neurosis became dysthymic disorder (or neurotic depression). ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just published the results of six studies, indicating that most adults with dysthymic or moderate depression experience no discernible improvement from taking anti-depressants. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) just published the results of six studies, indicating that most adults with dysthymic or moderate depression experience no discernible improvemen ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
A similar process could lead to dysthymic disorder or adjustment disorder with depressed mood. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)
What the cognitive therapists spell out, and what the psychiatrists only imply, is that depressed people, all depressed people—the melancholic and the neurotic, the endogenous and the reactive, the dysthymic and the majorly depressed—have in common their demoralization, their inability to see a limitless horizon, their despair over the possibility that their longings will never be satisfied. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)
Patients who in the investigator's judgment presented with a clinically predominant Axis I disorder other than MDD (e.g. dysthymic disorder, eating disorders, Specific phobia, PTSD, OCD, Panic disorder, etc) ❋ Unknown (2009)
The essential symptom for dysthymic disorder is an almost daily depressed mood for at least two years, but without the necessary criteria for a major depression. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Assessing both ourselves and others, we find ourselves attending to strange categories: reactivity, aloneness, risk and stress, spectrum traits, dysthymic and hyperthymic personality. ❋ Steven Johnson (2004)
New York readers who suffer from chronic depression (dysthymic disorder) as William James did, and who seek modern, free treatment with psychotherapy and/or medication, are encouraged to call the Cornell University Medical Center at (212) 821-0772. ❋ Markowitz, John C. (1999)
The fact that schizoid and dysthymic traits do not relate to what used to be called “the neuroses” is consistent with evidence see Chapters 10 and 11, respectively that they are, in fact, low-grade chronic forms of illness: i.e., deviations with pathology. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
The heterogeneity of the dysthymia category arises, in part, from the DSM decision to dichotomize depression into major (including melancholic and nonmelancholic) forms versus minor (dysthymic) forms, rather than by the older endogenous (melancholia) versus reactive (neurotic) dichotomy. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
He is simply echoing some dysthymic poet of the past -- reaching out with some other man's hat for the stray nickel of your sympathy. ❋ Unknown (1904)
I haven't been depressed, exactly, but seriously dysthymic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Ms. A" was a 55-year-old Caucasian female who experienced her first episode of depression at age 25 and was subsequently diagnosed with dysthymic disorder and recurrent major depressive disorder. ❋ Unknown (2009)
