DYSTHYMIA AND ART OF RAPID PRESCRIBING
Abstract
Dysthymia is a chronic depression of mood which does not currently fulfil the criteria for recurrent depressive disorder, mild or moderate severity, duration of individual episodes although the criteria for mild depressive episode may have been fulfilled in the past. Most of the time they feel tired and depressed. Homoeopathic understanding of health is intimately connected to its understanding of the mind in general. Body and mind are dynamically interconnected and that both directly influence each other. Patient was cured after prescribing Aurum metallicum 30.
KEYWORDS- Dysthymia, Dysthymic disorders, Depression, Mood disorder.
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