When you have seasonal affective disorder, you have a low mood that usually appears when the days start getting shorter and improves when the days are longer and sunnier. It's more than just the winter blahs. These changes in your mood affect your ability to handle everyday life. Your thi...
While it can occur alone, there is increasing evidence that the majority of individuals who meet criteria for dysthymic disorder also experience more severe episodic mood disorders throughout their lifetime, and there is also an aggregation of mood disorders within their family members. Patients ...
BACKGROUND: This study examined whether there is a familial relationship between depressive personality and the mood disorders. METHOD: Rates of depressive personality were compared in 161 relatives of outpatients with dysthymic disorder (DD), 75 relatives of outpatients with non-chronic major depressive...
When you have seasonal affective disorder, you have a low mood that usually appears when the days start getting shorter and improves when the days are longer and sunnier. It's more than just the winter blahs. These changes in your mood affect your ability to handle everyday life. Your thi...
Dysthymic disorder (DD) is a depressive disorder characterised by persistent low and/or irritable mood and has been identified as a major risk factor for developing major depressive disorder (MDD). MDD and DD have been associated with executive function difficulties of working memory and attention....
The early-onset patients had a significantly longer index MDE, significantly higher rates of personality disorders and lifetime substance use disorders, and a significantly greater proportion had a family history of mood disorder. The subgroups did not differ in symptom severity or functional impairment...