I notice that we – including myself – spend a lot of time on this site talking about depression and medication, depression and psychotherapy, depression and support groups.
That may be because most of you write in about major depression, and for major (clinical) depression, medication and psychotherapy are very important.
But there is a whole group of people – in the millions – who have dysthymia, which is defined on this site as:
a chronic form of depression characterized by moods that...
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