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A 27-year-old woman seeks evaluation for her "depression" in an out-patient clinic. She reports episodic feelings of sadness since adolescence. Occasionally she feels good, but these periods seldom last more than 2 weeks. She is able to work but thinks she is not doing as well as she should. In describing her problems she seems to focus more on repeated disappointments in her life and her low opinion of herself than on discrete depressive symptoms. In your differential diagnosis at this point,which one of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
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1) major depression with melancholia
2) adjustment disorder with depressed mood
3) cyclothymia
4) childhood depression
5) dysthymia
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| p53
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5) dysthymia
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| mesh
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5
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5
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| determine
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agreed 5
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| achilles
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yup, dysthymia
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