Years ago one professional speculated I suffer from both major depressive disorder and dysthymia. From my subjective perspective, whatever I have is both chronic and debilitating.
The 2013 publication of the DSM-5 brought a change. This is from
Doc John's Psych Central Professional summation:
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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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My dog
mastered the "fetch" command. He would communicate he wanted something, and I would fetch it.