Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Mood Disorders

Mood Disorders is an experience of extreme or inappropriate emotion

Major Depression: unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause
Depression is the common cold of psychological disorders

Seasonal Affective Disorder: experience depression during the winter months 
-Based not on temperature, but on amount of sunlight
-Treated with light therapy

Bipolar Disorder: involves periods of depression and manic episodes
-Manic episodes involve feelings of high energy




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