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When you have a mood disorder, your general emotional state or mood is distorted or contradicting your situation and affecting your ability to function properly. You can be extremely sad, empty, or irritable (depressed), or you can have periods of depression alternating with excessive happiness (mania).
Anxiety disorders can also affect your mood and are common with depression. Mood disorders can increase your risk of suicide. Mood disorders Treatment in Khammam
Some examples of mood disorders are:
- Major Depression – Long and persistent periods of extreme sadness
- Bipolar Disorder – Also known as manic depression or bipolar affective disorder, depression, which includes alternating periods of depression and mania
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – a form of depression most commonly associated with fewer hours of daylight in northern and southern latitudes from late fall to early spring
- Cyclothymic Disorder – a disorder that causes less extreme emotional ups and downs than bipolar disorder
- Premenstrual dysphoria – mood swings and irritability that occur during the premenstrual phase of a woman’s cycle and go away with the onset of menstruation
- Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) – a long-term (chronic) form of depression
- Disruptive Mood Disorder – a chronic, severe, persistent irritability disorder in children that often includes frequent tantrums that do not match the child’s developmental age
- Medical illness-related depression – persistent depressed mood and significant loss of enjoyment in most or all activities directly related to the physical effects of another illness
- Drug or substance use-induced depression – symptoms of depression that develop during or shortly after substance use or withdrawal, or after exposure to a drug