Posted by Toby on January 28, 1999, at 14:25:47
In reply to Question for TOBY, posted by Jeremy on January 23, 1999, at 9:16:51
Often a person will have residual depressive symptoms that fluctuate for long periods of time after a major depressive episode. Since you have dysthymia, which is a low level of longstanding depression (which of course does not make it any less life-changing than a big episode), it might be expected that these symptoms would be worse for you. It is also impossible to predict when or if these lingering episodes will occur in a particular person or if they will happen once or many times. Since OCD is an anxiety disorder, these flashes of anxiety you have may be occurring as a result of other imbalances related to the OCD. I hope you are getting both psychotherapy and medications for these disorders. It used to be thought that dysthymia was a personality disorder but we know now that it is true depression and can respond to proper doses of antidepressants. The key there being "proper" as in "enough for a long enough period of time."
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