elevated mood
Feeling unusually buoyant
Elevated mood describes a state of heightened emotional well-being—feeling unusually happy, energetic, or optimistic.
The phrase appears most often in clinical contexts, where it can indicate the manic phase of bipolar disorder: The patient presented with elevated mood and decreased need for sleep.
Outside psychiatry, it simply means feeling better than usual: Exercise puts me in an elevated mood.
- euphoriaIntense emotional high
- elationIntense triumphant joy
- on top of the worldSupremely pleased with life
- joyIntense positive emotion
- happinessJoyful emotional state
feeling good · buoyant · uplifted · in high spirits · exhilarated · giddy · manic · high · flying high · bliss · over the moon · cheerful · radiant · floating · soaring · ecstatic · jubilant · lighthearted
- intoxication effectseuphoria, dizziness, slurred speech, drowsiness, confusion
- bipolar disordermania, hypomania, bipolar II, cyclothymia, manic episode
- addiction signscravings, dependence, withdrawal, compulsion, relapse
elevated mooddepression
Prolonged low state
low mood · dejection · despondency · melancholy · gloom
elevated mooddepressive episode
Sustained period of clinical melancholy
major depression · clinical depression · bipolar depression · dysthymia · flat affect
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