People with depressive personality disorder (DPD) will experience chronic sullenness, disrupting their day-to-day functioning and disheartening those around them. Their pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors may be rigid and limiting, as is the case with other personality disorders...
Dysthymia, sometimes referred to as chronic depression, is a less severe form of depression...depression symptoms can linger for a long period of time, perhaps two years or longer. Those who suffer from dysthymia are usually able to function adequately...
