Mood disorder

A mood disorder, dem sanso know as an affective disorder, be any of a group of conditions of mental den behavioral disorder wer de main underlying characteristic be a disturbance insyd de person ein mood. De classification dey insyd de Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) den International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Mood disorders fall into seven groups, wey dey include: 1. abnormally elevated mood, such as mania anaa hypomania; 2. depressed mood, of wich de best-known den most researched be major depressive disorder (MDD) (dem alternatively know as clinical depression, unipolar depression, anaa major depression); den 3. moods wich cycle between mania den depression, dem know as bipolar disorder (BD) (dem formerly know as manic depression). 4. Der be chaw subtypes of depressive disorders anaa psychiatric syndromes wey dey feature less severe symptoms such as dysthymic disorder (similar to MDD, buh longer lasting den more persistent, though often milder) den cyclothymic disorder (similar to buh milder dan BD).

Insyd sam cases, more dan one mood disorder fi be present in an individual, like bipolar disorder den depressive disorder. Mood disorders sanso fi be substance induced, anaa dey occur in response to a medical condition.

Na English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley propose an overarching category of affective disorder. Na dem replace de term by mood disorder, as de latter dey refer to de underlying anaa longitudinal emotional state, whereas de former dey refer to de external expression wey odas observe.

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