How a depression differente from dysthymia?/¿En que diferencia la depresión de la distimia.
Today we are going to talk about dysthymia, we will explain what it is and how it differs from depression. In DSM-5, dysthymia is renamed Persistent Depressive Disorder. Dysthymia is a depressed mood, less severe than depression and that does not have the same symptoms as a major depression, or does so only in very short periods of time. Its evolution over time is usually more than two years or a year in children and adolescents. It is characterized by a prolonged low mood and sadness, the person suffering from it loses interest in things, and often sees himself as useless and uninteresting. The symptoms can be persistent or intermittent, of milder intensity compared to major depression and are characterized by the fact that the individual is habitually sad, introverted, melancholic, excessively conscious, unable to be cheerful and worried about his personal insufficiency. Dysthymia usually begins in early adulthood, but the first symptoms can also appear, in childhood ...