Definition of "cyclothymia" []

• A mild affective disorder characterized by alternating periods of elevated and depressed mood. (noun)

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• "Darnall Army Community Hospital and a diagnosis of cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder with mood swings."
• "Clearly not all individuals who have cyclothymia go on to develop the full manic-depressive syndrome."
• "Six poets—Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Burns, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Campbell, John Keats, and Robert Stephen Hawker—probably had milder forms of manic-depressive illness cyclothymia or bipolar II disorder, although Keats and Burns died before it became clear what the ultimate severity and course of their mood disorders would have been."