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A mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time
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cyclothymia
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cyclothymia \cyclothymia\ n. a mild bipolar disorder.
Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) a chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression
WordNet
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n. a mild bipolar disorder that persists over a long time [syn: cyclothymic disorder , cyclic disorder ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cyclothymia , also called cyclothymic disorder , is a type of chronic mood disorder widely considered to be a more chronic but milder or subthreshold form of bipolar disorder . Cyclothymia is characterized by numerous mood swings, with periods of hypomanic ...
Usage examples of cyclothymia.
He consoled himself with the thought that it wouldn't last long and more pointedly with the clinical knowledge that a person afflicted with cyclothymia, the technical name for this condition, was known, of all things, as a cycloid.
He sat amid the pillows on his bed, ratchety ratchety come and catchety, eventually leaning over to untie his shoes and then removing the rest of the clothing and stretching for his robe, wondering in this interval of reaching out to finger the patterned fabric why it was that with the coupled obstacles of child size and cyclothymia he had to endure as well the thought-provoking if minor abnormality of a right testicle that hung noticeably lower than the left.
A psychologist would say that your group identification is low and your cyclothymia practically a minus quantity, while your ergic tension is pleasingly high.
Although unusually stable, there is a tendency toward cyclothymia on his part, culminating in acute depression.