Cyclothymic disorder (also known as Cyclothymia) is as a mild mood disorder where patients suffer mood swings between brief episodes of mild depression and an elevated mood (also called hypomania). The high and low mood swings typically do not result in the severity of mania or major depression.  Cyclothymia is an illness which is pretty much like “bipolar”; but people who suffer from this illness are known to have much milder symptoms than those with advanced case of bipolar disorder. How Does Cyclothymic Disorder Affect People Cyclothymia affects both men and women, and according to statistics about 0.4 – 1 percent of people in the United States suffer from Cyclothymic. Also knowing the unipolar depression definition helps. The symptoms of Cyclothymia typically start in adolescence or during early adulthood. It is usually quite difficult to identify the onset of this disorder. In Cyclothymia the sufferer’s mood swing from hypomania to depression and fluctuates again. According to experts, the pattern of this disorder in most patients is typically irregular and not predictable. Depression and hypomania can last for a couple of days, weeks or even months! In between the episodes of mood swings, the sufferer may experience Normal moods for over a month or the mood swings may cycle incessantly, with no experience of “normal” mood in between. In comparison to much more severe mood disorders, the Cyclothymia symptoms are pretty mild. The depressive symptoms of this mood disorder never results in major depression. The sufferer’s elevated moods never result in ...

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