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Treat Mood Disorders
- By Caren Jacobs
- Published December 5th, 2008
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Mood disorders are mental disorders that are followed by various symptoms like periods of depression, sudden mood swings and a feeling of isolation!
Description
The fact is that in this world that is full of hustle and bustle a lot of people tend to go through sad or elated moods from time to time, but the fact is that those people who suffer from mood disorders suffer from severe or prolonged mood states that is responsible for disturbing their day to day life!
Among the general mood disorders classified in the fourth edition (1994) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) are major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and dysthymia.
In classifying and diagnosing mood disorders, the first thing that should be known is the fact whether the disorder is unipolar or bipolar. After knowing all this, a person will be cured in a better way! When only one extreme in mood is experienced over a period of time, then this type of depression is known as unipolar. Major depression points out to a single severe period of depression, when the person is geared up with negative thoughts and thinks only about hopeless thoughts and is geared up with physical symptoms like fatigue in that particular
duration of time.
In major depressive disorder, a lot of patients experience different kinds of depression. In between these episodes, it is likely that the person does not feel any kind of sadness or depression or have other symptoms associated with depression. Other patients have more frequent episodes.
The symptoms of major depression may include:
Description
The fact is that in this world that is full of hustle and bustle a lot of people tend to go through sad or elated moods from time to time, but the fact is that those people who suffer from mood disorders suffer from severe or prolonged mood states that is responsible for disturbing their day to day life!
Among the general mood disorders classified in the fourth edition (1994) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) are major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and dysthymia.
In classifying and diagnosing mood disorders, the first thing that should be known is the fact whether the disorder is unipolar or bipolar. After knowing all this, a person will be cured in a better way! When only one extreme in mood is experienced over a period of time, then this type of depression is known as unipolar. Major depression points out to a single severe period of depression, when the person is geared up with negative thoughts and thinks only about hopeless thoughts and is geared up with physical symptoms like fatigue in that particular
In major depressive disorder, a lot of patients experience different kinds of depression. In between these episodes, it is likely that the person does not feel any kind of sadness or depression or have other symptoms associated with depression. Other patients have more frequent episodes.
The symptoms of major depression may include:
- Loss of appetite, don't feel like eating at all... or sometimes you tend to eat a lot(more than your regular diet, and you get obese)
- Feeling of sadness
- A change in sleep patterns, like not sleeping (insomnia) or sleeping too much
- Feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, or inappropriate guilt
- Fatigue
- Difficulty in concentrating or making decisions
- Overwhelming and intense feelings of sadness or grief
- Disturbed thinking. The person may also have physical symptoms like stomachaches or headaches.
- Heterocyclic antidepressants (HCAs), like amitriptyline (Elavil)
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI inhibitors), like fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), and sertraline (Zoloft)
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI inhibitors), like phenelzine sulfate (Nardil) and tranylcypromine sulfate (Parnate)
- Mood stabilizers, like lithium carbonate (Eskalith) and valproate.