Caleb has worked as a city manager for a small Midwestern city since graduating from college about four years ago. The job is okay and Caleb's work performance is acceptable, but Caleb almost always feels slightly down and sad. Caleb's chronic case of "the blues" is characteristic of the psychological disorder called cyclothymic disorder.

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Cyclothymic disorder involves periods of hypomanic symptoms as well as periods of depressive symptoms, not just a chronic low mood. Caleb's experience of consistently feeling slightly down and sad without mention of elevated mood states does not align with the diagnostic criteria for cyclothymic disorder.

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