Cyclothymia refers to a minor mood disorder characterized by chronic or cyclic mood disturbance that lasts at least two (2) years and has many of the same features found in a major depressive episode ; "up and down” fluctuating periods of hypomanic and depressive features occur over a long period of time.

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