About Bipolar Disorder Kay Jamison, Ph. D., Describes what it is like to be a bipolar. The Value of Support Groups Coming Out. Don't underestimate the importance of safeguarding your overall health. Factors that contribute to mood disorders include poor sleep habits, vitamin deficiencies, stress, other illnesses and their treatments, drug interactions, food sensitivities, improper metabolism, and social isolation.
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You may find it helpful to keep a journal to chart your activities, nutrition, and health to determine possible contributing factors to your mood disturbances. This gives women with depression and manic depression a special reason to chart their menstrual cycle. Don't Do It People with mood disorders may develop unhealthy habits as quick fixes to their depressed mood, or in response to a manic mood. Such abuse can cause other health problems, increase or decrease the effects of carefully prescribed medication, cause severe or even lethal interactions, and lead to destructive activity. Exclusive of the presence of clinical depression, drugs and alcohol on their own can sufficiently alter the body's chemistry and bring about episodes of depression or mania.