Dysthymia runs in families, he added, and the children of people with major depression are at increased risk of developing the milder disorder.
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Dysthymia consists of the same depressive symptoms, but its main differentiable feature is its longer-lasting nature as compared to minor depressive disorder.
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The brain undergoes significant development by hormones which can contribute to mood disorders such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, dysthymia and schizophrenia.
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Others may see the people with dysthymia as pessimistic, self-critical, underachieving and lacking in motivation, spontaneity or a sense of adventure.
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In the early 1990s, she received a diagnosis of dysthymia, a chronic, low-grade depression that lingers for two years or longer.
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Dysthymia is a chronic, milder mood disturbance in which a person reports a low mood almost daily over a span of at least two years.
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Dysthymia is far more chronic ( long lasting ) than major depressive disorder, in which symptoms may be present for as little as 2 weeks.
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While depressive personality disorder shares some similarities with mood disorders such as dysthymia, it also shares many similarities with personality disorders including avoidant personality disorder.
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However, the only known study to have covered dysthymia specifically found it to be more common in African and Mexican Americans than in European Americans.
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Each clinical type will have certain characteristic features; so people with dysthymia may be less prone to committing suicide than people in a major depressive episode.
