Dysthymic Disorder - Chronic Affective Disorder on the Border of Personality and Mood Disorders

Abstract

Dysthymia was primarily understood as part of personality disorders or chronic characterological depression, has been recently classified as a persistent affective disorder. However the relationship with personality disorder has become o focus of renewed interest because of frequent comorbidity of those disorders.

Keywords

• dysthymic disorder
• early onset dysthymia
• double depression
• personality disorders
• dopaminergic theory of depression