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What is Dysthymia? (Persistent Depressive Disorder)



What is Dysthymia? (Persistent Depressive Disorder)

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  1. @Someguy8047 on

    My provider told me I had Dysthymia which is long tern depression, I told her, I don't feel depressed. She said that is one of the symptoms. Apparently you can have depression for so long it just becomes a kind of normal for you.

  2. @JohnnyPicasso4 on

    My reasoning why you should enter a therapist office with a "garbage advice jar" and DEMAND they bring atleast $200 in $20 bills. Every bit of retarded ass advice = $20 for you bucko its a win lose in your favor. Your welcome

    thank you for pushing the idea that when talk is just talk, maybe I need to PRESENT MONEY to talk and hear zero solutions. I walk in. Here is problem. I realize solution (realistic positve solution presented). I have trouble acting on (presented realistic plan to build life through a skillset because of depression caused by underemployment) response see this psychiatrist and get on more pills duh. Yall have learning disability and should recieve negative income depending on how retarded your solutions are.

  4. @t75kab11 on

    i've had dysthymia all my life. I do take medication, and it does help some. But, IT IS ALWAYS THERE. I can't wait for night so II can go to sleep. And then I have night terrors, not all the time, but at least once a month. I don't even know it happened, my kids tell me abot it.

  7. @marleanamarlianamont5939 on

    I always get a burning sensation that travels so like one day it's on one side of my face and the next day it's on my leg or arm and it's so severe.. whenever it's near my each it feels like I have a terrible earache, and when it's near my jaw neck it feels like I have a bad sore throat.. I've had it for years.. there's nothing there to show the pain.. no redness, nothing. I suffer from anxiety. Do you have to have a brain scan to get diagnosed or see a psychiatrist or just let the doctor know my synphomes and go from there?

  8. @Elham_32356 on

    Sometimes I think about my situation and say, was this life?
    For a decade, anxiety and depression, and when I sleep, it's all negative dreams. When I wake up, I see my illness and loneliness. Medicine, exercise and all these positive things, I really don't know why I don't see much effect. Depression has to pass a decade of my efforts to come to a conclusion.
    Devastating is the only word I can use. It's just that depression is not permanent, the fear of the return of mania is a different story.
    This mental crisis and seeing the people around me who are healthy people gives me a hard feeling of loneliness. I wish I could get better one day.

  13. @TheRandyGr on

    Great topic even 10 years after being posted. I've suffered with this for nearly 40 years. 😢 I've been in therapy for many years during that time without success.

  14. @frianklippelaar7331 on

    I havent been diagnosed with this but i see a lot of similarities with how i feel. Seems like it being a low case depression just makes it managable enough to make it unbearable for the one who has it and invisible for those around which makes it even more frustrating

  17. @liljj8324 on

    I just got diagnosed with this. I thought I was just depressed but it doesn’t feel right. It’s goes and comes back again and then I’m ok and then it’s back again and it gets worse when I’m overwhelmed with things

  18. @antjestr1047 on

    I had many therapies, I'm still having it, along with dissociation at times…at least I gained more clarity during the last years due to me researching…I want to start a therapy again soon, but this time with a specialist in trauma & who includes body based methods

  20. @markdigitalwealth on

    I am 63, i have recently been diagnosed ADHD and Autism, ive had crippling anxiety for over 3 years, anxiety all my life
    and defo persistent depression since Covid, probably further back,
    I don't enjoy anything in life now, i rarely go out of the house i share with my mum , and i'm her primary carer, i'm married to a Thai lady who lives in our house in Thailand, i now only get to see her for no more than 4 weeks in a year cos of my financial situation.

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