Mood Disorders

• Mood disorders are prolonged and persistent negative mood, which can adversely interfere with many aspects of one’s life.
• Mood disorders are illnesses, in the same way that heart disease is an illness
• Mood disorders are illnesses that adversely affect the entire body, not just the mind.
• Mood disorders have to be properly diagnosed and treated by licensed and qualified professionals.

Types of Mood Disorders

There are three primary forms of mood disorders:

1. Major Depression   Learn more about Major Depression

   Major Depression has a beginning, middle and end. Left untreated it can last for months and tends to reoccur. Each reoccurrence tends to last longer and be more debilitating than one before.

2. Dysthymia (Chronic Depression)   Learn more about Dysthymia
   

   Dysthymia is a low-grade, long-term depression that can last a lifetime.

3. Bipolar Depression (Manic-Depression)   Learn more about Bipolar Depression
   

   In Bipolar depression the downs of the depression can alternate with days or weeks of manic mood which is characterized by extreme elation, grandiose thoughts, irritability and inappropriate and destructive actions. When goes untreated, Bipolar depression can develop into delusions and hallucinations.