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Dysthymic Disorder Symptoms by PsychCentral Staff
I understand the just-released DSM-5 (
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) has changed the dysthymia diagnosis. The following is from
DSM-5 Changes: Depression & Depressive Disorders by PsychCentral's own Dr. John Grohol:
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Dysthymia is gone, replaced with something called “persistent depressive disorder.” The new condition includes both chronic major depressive disorder and the previous dysthymic disorder. Why this change? “An inability to find scientifically meaningful differences between these two conditions led to their combination with specifiers included to identify different pathways to the diagnosis and to provide continuity with DSM-IV.”
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