What is Dysthymia - Persistent Depressive Disorder - Mental Health with Kati Morton
Today I talk about dysthymia or what is now called persistent depressive disorder. What differentiates this from MDD is that this is a low grade depression that persists for 2 years or more!...
========== Hey everybody.Today I want to talk with you
about Dysthymia.Or Persistent Depressive Disorder.What is that?And what do we do if we have it?So stay tuned.So like I said,Today I'm going to talk to you
about Dysthymia.In the DSM 5, they changed the name to be
Persistent Depressive Disorder.But the symptoms aren't any different.And the diagnostic criteria
hasn't changed.So whatever we call it,
it's still the same diagnosis.And for my benifit.I'm going to call it Dysthymia.Because that's what I went to school
and you know we called it that.I was studying for my exams,
we called it that.So, today I am going to talk to you
about Dysthymia.I know many of you have reached out and
said that you have that diagnosis.And what makes ...