cyclothymia
/ˌsʌɪklə(ʊ)ˈθʌɪmɪə
/noun [mass noun] Psychiatry, dated
A mental state characterized by marked swings of mood between depression and elation; bipolar disorder.A person with cyclothymia experiences symptoms of hypomania but never a full-blown hypomanic episode....
- Sixteen of these patients also met criteria for major depression, dysthymic disorder, GAD, cyclothymia, and somatization disorder.
- The psychiatrist examines Virginia Woolf's life from the perspective of her illness, cyclothymia, a milder form of manic depression.
Derivatives
cyclothymic
- In a prospective study, 35 percent of cyclothymic patients developed full hypomanic, manic, or depressive episodes during a drug-flee follow-up period of up to three years.
- Simpson's behaviour suggests that he was a cyclothymic personality, probably a full-fledged manic-depressive.
- Klein suffered from a severe form of cyclothymic illness which, in manic phases, provoked arrest and disgrace, and in depressive mood, brought him close to self-destruction.
Origin
1920s: from cyclo- + Greek thumos 'temper'.
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