mood disorders
Affective psychiatric conditions
Mood disorders are mental health conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in emotional state—primarily depression and bipolar disorder.
The term covers conditions where mood is abnormally low, elevated, or unstable in ways that impair daily functioning.
She was diagnosed with a mood disorder after months of severe depression.
Clinicians distinguish mood disorders from temporary emotional responses to life events.
- bipolarHaving two opposite poles
- dysthymiaChronic low-grade melancholy
- depressionProlonged low state
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- melancholiaProfound, enduring sorrow
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