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Humor is a basic tone of affection, and as such is a constant feature of the personality traits of durability and relative independence from the situations and by environmental stimuli, is a mood that varies for the same person from moment to time depending on the thoughts and life situations from time to time experienced. Each of us experience some degree of melancholy, sadness, unhappiness, but it takes on pathological traits when fluctuates beyond the limits compatible with the importance of the situation of gratification or frustration experienced by the subject. Mood disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders that have as their predominant feature of the alteration in mood, despite some degree of melancholy is considered normal when it comes to mood disorder and no longer possible to restore an appropriate balance. Although the most common psychological disorders, if not diagnosed promptly and treated appropriately (both psychologically and, when necessary, pharmacologically) mild disturbances can become as disabling. When the mood is set very low, usually defined as "depressed mood", the person has a strong daily sadness and an inability to experience the same positive pleasures previously received in making its activities and to perceive more joys from its many spheres of life. It is a psychological condition that causes a real and significant distress or impairment in normal functioning of personal, social, business, academic, family, emotional or in the various areas of life, functional and related to the maintenance of wellbeing general.
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Mood Disorders - Mauro De Santis
Mood Disorders
Mauro De Santis
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INDEX
Introduction
Mood and Mood Disorders
Causes and Statistics
Diagnosis of the Disorder
Disorders Induced by Substance
The Mercury from Dental Amalgam
Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
The Major Depressive Episode
The Manical Episode
The Mixed Episode
Post-Partum Depression
Disorders Meteorosensitivity
Seasonal Depression
Mood Disorders in Children
Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
Therapeutic Treatments
Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
The Mood Disorders are characterized discontinuous mood of the person, which is the main psychological trait. Who is afflicted with one of these disorders usually shows a subdued mood or too high on a period of time or longer. The trend in mood can also be characterized by alternating periods under tone at moments in which it is instead extremely high. Humor is a basic tone of affection, and as such is a constant feature of the personality traits of durability and relative independence from the situations and by environmental stimuli, is a mood that varies for the same person from moment to time depending on the thoughts and life situations from time to time experienced. Each of us experience some degree of melancholy, sadness, unhappiness, but it takes on pathological traits when fluctuates beyond the limits compatible with the importance of the situation of gratification or frustration experienced by the subject. Mood disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders that have as their predominant feature of the alteration in mood, despite some degree of melancholy is considered normal when it comes to mood disorder and no longer possible to restore an appropriate balance. Although the most common psychological disorders, if not diagnosed promptly and treated appropriately (both psychologically and, when necessary, pharmacologically) mild disturbances can become as disabling. When the mood is set very low, usually defined as depressed mood
, the person has a strong daily sadness and an inability to experience the same positive pleasures previously received in making its activities and to perceive more joys from its many spheres of life. It is a psychological condition that causes a real and significant distress or impairment in normal functioning of personal, social, business, academic, family, emotional or in the various areas of life, functional and related to the maintenance of wellbeing general. The person feels constantly on the ground and his thoughts, his emotions and his feelings are almost always strongly negative. In this way, the existence is transformed into a continuous pain that leads the individual to the inability to appreciate anything, a situation as defined in psychology anhedonia
. So rampant sadness, dejection, despair, hopelessness, suffering, as well as locking in themselves, crying, psychomotor retardation, impaired cognitive performance (e.g., memory, thought, perception, concentration), numbness and confusion.
At the neurological level was identified and established the connection between the operating levels of certain neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin and moody tone of the person. The mood is still directly and closely psycho-emotive also proportional to the dynamics, cognitive and attitude, as well as the subjective personality traits. Sometimes the humor alteration occurs as a result of very bad events of life, which affect a mind already hypersensitive to emotions, thereby triggering the personal constitution of the individual neuropsychological. The mood then decline to be pathological need to be distinguished from normal psychophysiological moments of discomfort or oscillation, thus it becomes a real trouble when it lasts for weeks, months and / or years and has an intensity and frequency such compromised to make the normal person's life in its different dimensions (personal, social, occupational, relational, etc..). Other depressive symptoms that do not make the problem plain and passenger, but a real disorder are: disposal of any interest and social relationship and affective, emotional responses inadequate and / or excessive, low self-esteem, slow and / or block psycho-cognitive and physical ( es. blocking of thoughts, staring and activities mimic-gestural and verbal lens), drastically increased or decreased hunger and weight gain, sleep problem (eg, insomnia or hypersomnia), psychosomatic symptoms (e.g. pain), hallucinations, delusions, of suicide ideation. The Mood disorders are classified into two major categories: depressive disorders or unipolar depression (major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder) and bipolar disorder (Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymic Disorder). There are other forms of mood disorders that will be taken into account in this text.
However, we complete this introduction by pointing out that mood disorders are most common:
• Depressive disorder. Of course a sad emotional state persisted for several weeks, the person has always wanted to cry and it is pervaded by a sense of melancholy that became manifest with a continuous thing of the past.
• Dysthymic Disorder. It 'a chronic mood disorder that is often diagnosed later (depression for at least two years). The sufferer has difficulty coping with the day, he has the latent negative thoughts and feelings we cannot do.
• Bipolar Disorder. And 'characterized by an alternation of euphoria and depression (five to six months). Symptoms of dysthymic disorder are the same but alternate states in which one has the feeling of being able to do everything. Apparent happiness, always joking and playfulness too belong to bipolar disorder. Read the guide how to treat bipolar disorder.
• cyclothymic Disorder. E 'a milder form of bipolar is characterized by alternating phases of euphoria and depression, but the prevailing euphoric phase, which can cause a relational character.
MOOD AND MOOD DISORDERS
Humor is the term now used in everyday language to describe a mood or an interior attitude, but it is interesting to remember that even this approach derives from the ancient theory of Galen, which hypothesized that temperament (defined as the set of features specifications of one person) could be due to a mixture of moods. Consequently proposed four temperaments: choleric, sanguine, melancholic and phlegmatic. His speculation was based on setting the four Hippocratic humors fundamental: blood from the heart, phlegm from the brain, bile from the liver white, black bile from the spleen. Today, the level of both medical and psychological study of variations requires more precise, at least the diagnostic point of view. To understand the meaning of the term mood
is useful to start with some basic findings. In medicine and