(1) adolescents with depression, dysphoria, mania, and anxiety disorders(2) One study examines the impact of psychosocial intervention and medication on post-heart attack dysphoria ; another examines a stress- and anger-management intervention.(3) Post has suggested a clinical continuum of euphoria, dysphoria and paranoid psychosis that occurs with regular cocaine use that is related to dosage, genetics and previous exposure.(4) There is, in fact, evidence that benzodiazepines are of greater benefit when used to treat either patients with moderate to high levels of anxiety or dysphoria .(5) While both tasks resulted in an improved mood for the nondysphoric participants, only the distraction task lifted the spirits of those with dysphoria .(6) Researchers found that sociotropy and negative affect were nonspecifically and positively correlated with both dysphoria and anxiety in 485 undergraduates.(7) Although the average depression lasts around six months, those with severe major depression or constant dysphoric depression may have symptoms that last for years.(8) ‘The implication for treatment is that if you ask dysphoric people to recall nice events from their lives it may not make them feel any better,’ Joormann notes.(9) They learn ways of working with low mood or dysphoric feelings that are different from the more automatic ways often ingrained in depressed people.(10) The data support the idea that depressed or dysphoric individuals exhibit differential response latencies to negative content than do individuals who are not depressed.(11) In addition to a general level of irritability, children with mania also present with extremely impairing dysphoric , explosive episodes that generally occur daily with little or no precipitant.
