With fewer symptoms and less severe presentation, persistent depressive disorder (PDD) differs from clinical depression. If ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - A continuous feeling of sadness could be just a dark mood, or it could be Persistent ...

The DSM is a resource mental health professionals can turn to for standardized diagnostic criteria for mental health ...

Rather, it tends to equate to what clinicians call Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD) or dysthymia. PDD is defined as a long-lasting, low-grade depressed mood that is present for two years or ...

On persistent depressive disorder, you feel sad for most of the day for most days of the week, and that lasts a very long time. Normally, people who have undergone a lot of trauma and have a ...

Double depression refers to a severe mental health condition characterized by the features of persistent depressive disorder and major depressive episodes. (Image: Canva) In the intricate ...

When Natasha Tracy was 19, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with minor depression. "I knew this was wrong," Tracy says. "He hadn't listened to me. I was suffering from severe, suicidal depression." ...

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Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD) stands as a troubling example of a serious mental health condition that remains largely unheard of. What is PDD? PDD—previously referred to as dysthymia—is ...