I spoke with my uncle for the past two weekends when I went home, whom I will
             call participant for the duration of the paper. He has been very depressed lately. He
             spoke to me for about an hour and I asked him what was wrong and why he seemed so
             down. Well, he stated to me that he just was feeling very well lately and that he was
             going to die soon. He does not have any disease or medical problem that would support
             this. He told me that he was a hundred years old and he didn't have much longer. The
             participant is 45 years old and his responses were not a joke. He told me that he had been
             feeling depressed almost every day lately. He also has also gone through these stages of
             feeling down for more than two years through my own observations. This is the
             beginning criterion for Dysthymia. I asked him while he was depressed how he felt. He
             told me he couldn't sleep and he was feeling fatigued lately, these are symptoms or
             subjective complaints. I also can say that an observation or sign of dysthymia that I have
             seen over the years is his overeating. Now, two or more of the following symptoms are
             need for one of the criteria for the disorder; Poor appetite or overeating, insomnia or
             hypersomnia, Low energy or fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration and difficultly
             decision making, and feelings of hopelessness. He was meeting at least three of them.
             He has had these symptoms for a long time and I cannot say if he has never been without
             these symptoms for more than two months at a time. He told me, that he feels this way
             quite often. As for a manic episode, I have never personally seen one with my uncle.
             This is another one of the symptoms, which are needed to fit the criteria for Dysthymia.
             Another criteria, the disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a
             psychotic disorder such as Schizophrenia. The participant does not meet th...