Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Glycopyrronium Bromide, Organ Donation, Cream Cheese
24 Apr 2018
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Cyclothymia is a rare mood disorder which has similar characteristics of bipolar disorder, just in a milder and more chronic form. If you are suffering from cyclothymia, you experience cyclic highs and lows that are persistent for at least two years or more. With cyclothymic disorder, your lows are a mild depression not characteristic of full major depression. Your highs are classified as symptomatic of hypomania a less severe form of mania. During your highs, your mood elevates for a time before returning to its baseline. In between your elevated and depressed moods, you are likely to feel like yourself: dysthymia is chronic depression with recurring symptoms of sadness and hopelessness lasting for several years. It is not characterized by acute depressive episodes but by an ongoing depressed feeling. Dysthymia is most common in women and is believed to be hereditary. Although it is a low-grade depression, dysthymia is still a serious condition.
