I have Dysthymic disorder. I have received treatment and have come to feel a lot better, but it still gets really hard at points. I struggle with the fact that I can separate my emotions from my mind and tell myself that it is going to get better and understand that, but regardless of what I tell myself I always talk negative to myself and my emotions are what control me to the point where I can no longer function in the outside world. I can handle certain things that I got through but not always it just gets to the point where I know I can't get through something by myself and I need support but I don't always get it from my closest loved ones. And now that I have received treatment my family expects me to be cured and be okay no matter what happens and it simply just doesn't work like that. Dysthymia is a long-term form of depression. I will not beat it or become cured, as much as I feel better for a time, there will always be times where I am depressed, even for years at a time.