Hyperthymia

Hyperthymia

Hyperthymia is a personality type or temperament characterised by happiness, high energy levels, extroversion, productiveness and creativity.Hyperthymia is the psychiatric opposite of dysthymia. [cite web
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=940DE3D8143FF932A05751C1A9649C8B63
title=Born to be happy, through a twist of human hard wire
date=December 31, 2002
accessdate=2007-08-18
publisher=New York Times
author=Richard A. Friedman
]

Hyperthymia can be regarded as denoting a psychological trait, unlike hypomania, which describes a psychological state. [cite web
url=http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13528613
title=The concept of hyperthymia: Historical development and contemporary aspects
author=Friederike Fritze, U. Ehrt, P. Brieger.
publisher=Fortschritte der Neurologie, Psychiatrie
date=2002
accessdate=2007-08-18
]

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