Cyclothymic disorder, or cyclothymia ... Created with Sketch. Keeping a chart of daily mood symptoms, treatments, sleep patterns, and life events can help. Such tracking has been shown to help ...

Cyclothymia involves frequent shifts between hypomania and depression, aka high and low mood states. These symptoms are milder than bipolar disorder mood episodes, but it's essential to get support.

But if you experience frequent changes in your mood that happen for no apparent reason, you may have cyclothymic disorder. For example, you could wake up feeling ecstatically happy - then hours ...

If you have cyclothymia, you'll have periods of feeling low followed by periods of extreme happiness and excitement (called hypomania) when you do not need much sleep and feel that you have a lot ...

Cyclothymia is a milder version of bipolar disorder. There are no sharp lines dividing the different categories of mood disorders. These labels are a starting point for understanding a person’s ...

Cyclothymia and dysthymia, two persistent mood disorders, have historically been considered more akin to personality disorders rather than major mood disorders such as bipolar disorder or MDD.

But because symptoms are mild, it is often difficult to tell when cyclothymia begins. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) When you have seasonal affective disorder, you have a low mood that usually ...

While the exact causes of cyclothymia are unknown, certain life events may trigger cyclothymia if you’re predisposed to this condition. It’s impossible to predict who will experience a mental ...