How Dysthymia Has Affected Me

This actually didn't start out as a video specifically about dysthymia, but it seemed to very naturally progress to that... so that's what it ended up being about. Hopefully with the video I can raise a little bit of awareness about this less commonly diagnosed depressive disorder.

PS: Here's the link to that website I spoke about on the video: http://www.freewebs.com/the-art-of-persuasion/

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• dysthymia
• dysthymic
• disorder
• depression
• depressive
• personality
• psychiatry
• mdd

[funtcucker1]

were you tossing the salad?

[shrinerspark]

@funtcucker1 Huh?

[MrCartoonguy]

do you ever becomr very euphorically happy or energised,confident and top of the world?

[shrinerspark]

No, I don't have cyclothymia, or any other form of bipolar. But thanks for asking. :)

[YummyCoockie]

I'm also dysthymic, and it's fucking hell. I'm just not like anyone else i know. everyone has always wondered why am i always in a bad mood, why am i always sad etc etc. and began simply seeing me as a mad and angry person. but no one knows i'm sick and that it's not my fault. I just isolate myself....i hate it, i can't make myself, motivate myself to communicate....

[shrinerspark]

@AngeloNiklis I can't decide if this comment is a compliment or an insult.

[jjobie]

@shrinerspark Whatever the case, it's a unique contradiction in terms, don't you think?

[zerosoma33]

@Kamikazekris100

I love SP!

[akxeman]

@PrairieThunderFan1 Hi - like yourself, I have dysthymia. its awful. I was angy - hot tempter and a fighter - for most of my life. My doc thought I was bipolar for a while. But it turns out the anger was due to me fighting the dysthemia all the time. It's just frustrating, you know? Try to recognize the type of enemy, and know that fighting it only leads to anger. Just tyring to help.

[Kamikazekris100]

Despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage!!!!!!!

[devilxking2]

@PrairieThunderFan1 sucks for you bro

[PrairieThunderFan1]

ive had dysthymic disorder for about 4 years now. its horrible. you wake up feeling like crap. you go to school, bad mood, angry all the time. i isolate my self from people and when im at school, kids have fun and have no hassle talking to other kids, but for me, its very difficult. it makes me sad how i have almost no social life whatsoever and im always alone. when im with someone, i easily get agitated and isolate my self. and it just gets worse.

[L0rdJupiter]

I've never been to psychiatrist because I'm too ashamed of what is happening to me. I'm 21 and I feel this way since I was 14. The saddest thing is - I'm smiling and laughing all the time just to hide it, and I'm getting even more depressed because of it. -.-