cyclothymic depression
1Cyclothymic personality — (Affective personality) is a DSM II personality disorder. It has the following definition:quotation|This behavior pattern is manifested by recurring and alternating periods of depression and elation. Periods of elation may be marked by ambition,… …
2cyclothymic — cy·clo·thy·mic thī mik adj relating to, having, or being a mood disorder characterized by alternating short episodes of depression and hypomania in a form less severe than that of bipolar disorder compare CYCLOID cyclothymic n a cyclothymic… …
3Depression: Recent Concepts — Starting in the middle third of the twentieth century, the diagnosis of depression increased many fold. Though some of this increase was owing to the systematic marketing of the diagnosis by pharmaceutical companies, other elements of the… …
4Depression and Mood Disorders: Recent Concepts — Starting in the middle third of the twentieth century, the diagnosis of depression increased many fold. Though some of this increase was owing to the systematic marketing of the diagnosis by pharmaceutical companies, other elements of the… …
5cyclothymic disorder — noun a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time • Syn: ↑cyclothymia, ↑cyclic disorder • Derivationally related forms: ↑cyclothymic (for: ↑cyclothymia) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
6cyclothymic — adjective Etymology: New Latin cyclothymia (from German Zyklothymie, from zykl cycl + thymie thymia) + English ic Date: 1923 relating to or being a mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of depression and elation in a form less… …
7cyclothymic — adj. (Psychiatry) of or pertaining to cyclothymia (cyclical condition in which depression alternates with elation) …
8manic depression — noun a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression • Syn: ↑bipolar disorder, ↑manic depressive illness, ↑manic depressive psychosis • Hypernyms: ↑affective disorder, ↑major affective disorder, ↑emotional disorder, ↑ …
9mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
10Dysthymia — Disthymia redirects here. The moth genus Disthymia is nowadays considered a junior synonym of Ethmia. Dysthymic disorder Classification and external resources ICD 10 F34.1 ICD 9 …
