| Significant acting out frequently occurs among children and adolescents with major depression and dysthymic disorder. |
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| In addition, youth with dysthymic disorder are at risk for developing major depression. |
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| Sixteen of these patients also met criteria for major depression, dysthymic disorder, GAD, cyclothymia, and somatization disorder. |
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| Symptoms must be present for at least two years in order for a diagnosis of dysthymic or cyclothymic disorder to be made. |
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| Today, St. John's wort is used for depression, dysthymic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, menopause, migraine, fibromyalgia and a variety of back pain syndromes. |
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| Patients were recruited through screening and referral, with 1,801 depressed or dysthymic elderly patients randomized to usual care or to the intervention. |
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| Major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder are much more prevalent than the bipolar disorders and cyclothymic disorder. |
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| Self-help groups may be useful for dysthymic clients for learning how to cope and for the support provided by other members. |
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| A considerable proportion of dysthymic clients become psychologically dependent on their medications. |
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| Psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for both dysthymic disorder and cyclothymic disorder, although antidepressant medications or mood-stabilizing agents are often beneficial. |
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| The prevalence for dysthymic disorder is 6 percent among the general population in the United States, but it is at least twice as common in women as in men. |
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| The cause of dysthymic disorder is not clear, but it appears to involve abnormalities of serotonergic and noradrenergic systems. |
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| Patients with primary attention problems often have to deal with failure and may become demoralized, depressed or dysthymic as a result, and in that case they will present with both disorders. |
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| Common conditions include major depression, dysthymic disorder, anti-social personality disorder and other personality disorders, anxiety disorder, attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder. |
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