Mood Disorders Mood disorders are a disturbance in the emotional state‚ which affects thinking‚ physical symptoms‚ social relationships and behavior. If you have a mood disorder‚ you might feel very happy or very sad for long periods of time for no apparent reason. There are different types of mood disorders including: mania‚ depression‚ bipolar‚ drug induced mood disorders‚ and medically induced mood disorders. When a mood factor pushes a person to one extreme or the other that mood disorders
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Chapter 7 Review Mood disorders I. DEPRESSION AND MANIA ARE THE KEY EMOTIONS IN MOOD DISORDERS: A. Depression—a low‚ sad state in which life seems dark and its challenges overwhelming B. Mania—a state of breathless euphoria or frenzied energy C. Most people with a mood disorder experience only depression 1. This pattern is called unipolar depression 2. There is no history of mania 3. Mood returns to normal when depression lifts D. Others experience periods of mania that alternate with
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Mood disorders such as major depression‚ dysthymia‚ bipolar disorder‚ and cyclothymia are common and very treatable forms of psychiatric problems. Depression is one of the most common conditions encountered in medical practice and affects up to 25 percent of women and 12 percent of men. Untreated depression can persist for two years or longer. Sixty percent of patients who receive treatment and recover will experience a recurrence of depression within three years. Fortunately‚ most episodes of major
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Unfortunately‚ mood disorders are far too common especially during adolescent years. Everything from sadness to severe depression‚ anxiety‚ bipolar‚ and panic attacks are just a few mood disorders that adolescents are effected with far too often. The social and academic pressures that adolescents undergo in schools such as popularity‚ maintaining good grades‚ making important decisions‚ puberty‚ parent/adolescent relationships‚ staying thin can all be unbearable. All of this causing these adolescents
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder‚ or SAD‚ is a common problem of people living in northern United States. People who are affected by this disorder commonly suffer from depression‚ lethargy‚ inability to concentrate‚ overeating and weight gain. People from the north tend to suffer more from this disorder because of the shortened days. It appears‚ that due to the deficiency of sunlight some people suffer from these symptoms. The shortened days have a hormonal effect on
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Ngoc (Lily) Le Abnormal Psychology Case Study #3 – Mood Disorders 29 May 2014 1. The different mood disorders that we explored together as a class are as following: depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. (I didn’t factor suicide into this.) Going into further detail‚ depressive disorders are the clarified grouping of individuals who have been identified to have unipolar depression. Having unipolar depression is when that same individual is in a mental state of depression without having shown
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)‚ or otherwise known as Major Depression‚ is a serious mood/mental disorder that drastically affects one’s life resulting in loss of interest‚ changes in diet‚ increase in irritability‚ and drop in mood. Major Depressive Disorder affects about 6.7% of the population of the United States over the age of 18. Although‚ MDD is common mostly in adults‚ it also affects teens and children. The main symptom of depression is a described as a sad or gloomy mood that doesn’t seem
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conclusion‚ based off analysis and evaluation of the resources used‚ it can be proven that the seasons do have an effect on one’s mental state. The effect that the seasons have on a person tend to be negative only‚ instead of positive feelings. This meaning that when the weather is changing due to the seasons and it starts to become cold and dark‚ it affects a person’s mental state in a negative way‚ allowing them to become sad and depressed. When the seasons cause negative feelings and mood changes‚ this
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Introduction to Psychology SCHIZOPHRENIA April 30th‚ 2011 Abstract Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder that has many long term symptoms‚ caused by both genetic and environmental factors and their interactions. Research on pathogenesis has traditionally focused on neurotransmitter systems in the brain‚ particularly those involving dopamine. Schizophrenia has been considered a separate disease for over a century‚ but in the absence of clear biological
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Individual Anxiety‚ Mood/Affective‚ Dissociative And Somatoform Disorders My Name PSY/410 Date Instructor Individual Anxiety‚ Mood/Affective‚ Dissociative Throughout this paper an explanation of terms used to describe mental states will be presented. Some of the mental states are real/physical‚ and some are only in the minds of the individual. To understand the disorders an explanation will be provided. For example‚ to understand what is an anxiety disorder an understanding of anxieties
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