Assignment # 4 Mood Disorders
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Life has its ups and downs, everybody experiences situations that effect our mood and confronts with feelings of good and bad. Our moods are undergoing enduring states of feeling that colour our psychological lives. Moods reflect our emotional experience, including a depressed, anxious, or elated state of mind, which can be a result of disappointing occurrences or dire circumstances. It is normal and appropriate to be happy about elevating events, it is just as normal and appropriate to feel depressed by dismal events. But people with mood disorders experience disturbances …show more content…
Disorders that involve mood swings are Bipolar. People with bipolar disorder have periods of depression and periods of feeling unusually ‘’ high’’ or elated. The ‘’ highs’’ get out of hand and manic person can behave in a reckless manner. The diagnosis of major depressive disorder is based on the occurrence of one or more major depressive episodes in the absence of a history of manic or hypomanic episode. In a major depressive episode, the person experiences either a depressed mood or loss of interest in all activities for a period of at least two weeks. The symptoms are severe but time limited.
Dysthymic disorder is also called neurotic depression, or chronic depression, it is a mood disorder consisting of same cognitive and physical problems as in depression, with less severe but longer-lasting symptoms. It is a milder yet more enduring type of depression that effects women two to three times more often than men. Another similarity between dysthymic disorder and major depression is that the mood travels in only one direction-down. People with dysthymia generally experience little or no joy in their lives. Instead things are rather gloomy most of the …show more content…
Moods are not driven by the events of life, but by a force of their own. Bipolar Disorder is also called manic-depressive illness, is a medical condition that involves changes in brain functioning leading to a dramatic mood swing. These mood swings can be so severe that they impair normal functioning at work, at school and in relationships.
Cyclothymic Disorder is a relatively mild mood disorder with symptoms similar to Bipolar Disorder. In cyclothymic disorder, moods swing between short periods of mild depression and hypomania, an elevated mood. The low and high mood swings never reach the severity or duration of major depressive or full mania episode. People with cyclothymic disorder have milder symptoms than occur in full-blown bipolar disorder. In most people, the pattern is irregular and unpredictable.
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Life has its ups and downs, everybody experiences situations that effect our mood and confronts with feelings of good and bad. Our moods are undergoing enduring states of feeling that colour our psychological lives. Moods reflect our emotional experience, including a depressed, anxious, or elated state of mind, which can be a result of disappointing occurrences or dire circumstances. It is normal and appropriate to be happy about elevating events, it is just as normal and appropriate to feel depressed by dismal events. But people with mood disorders experience disturbances …show more content…
Disorders that involve mood swings are Bipolar. People with bipolar disorder have periods of depression and periods of feeling unusually ‘’ high’’ or elated. The ‘’ highs’’ get out of hand and manic person can behave in a reckless manner. The diagnosis of major depressive disorder is based on the occurrence of one or more major depressive episodes in the absence of a history of manic or hypomanic episode. In a major depressive episode, the person experiences either a depressed mood or loss of interest in all activities for a period of at least two weeks. The symptoms are severe but time limited.
Dysthymic disorder is also called neurotic depression, or chronic depression, it is a mood disorder consisting of same cognitive and physical problems as in depression, with less severe but longer-lasting symptoms. It is a milder yet more enduring type of depression that effects women two to three times more often than men. Another similarity between dysthymic disorder and major depression is that the mood travels in only one direction-down. People with dysthymia generally experience little or no joy in their lives. Instead things are rather gloomy most of the …show more content…
Moods are not driven by the events of life, but by a force of their own. Bipolar Disorder is also called manic-depressive illness, is a medical condition that involves changes in brain functioning leading to a dramatic mood swing. These mood swings can be so severe that they impair normal functioning at work, at school and in relationships.
Cyclothymic Disorder is a relatively mild mood disorder with symptoms similar to Bipolar Disorder. In cyclothymic disorder, moods swing between short periods of mild depression and hypomania, an elevated mood. The low and high mood swings never reach the severity or duration of major depressive or full mania episode. People with cyclothymic disorder have milder symptoms than occur in full-blown bipolar disorder. In most people, the pattern is irregular and unpredictable.