dysthymia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tendency to be depressed, without hope.
2. isim A form of clinical depression, characterized by low-grade depression which lasts at least two years.

   “For diagnostic, research, and treatment reasons, a distinction should always be made between the milder dysthymias, atypical and hysteroid depressions, and the more serious major depressive illnesses, with and without melancholic (vegetative) and psychotic features.”